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I illiv (OXSTITIITLIONUST. | OFFICE ON McINTOSH-STBEET, ■ T HI K n BOOR FROM THE NORTH-WEST CORNER ■ OF BROAD-3TBEKT. V TERMS: * Daily, in advance per annum... .*(> 00 s If not in advance per annum 7 00 I Tri-Week!v, in advance, .per annum 400 I If not in advance per annum 5 00 I Weekly, in advance per annum 2 0*) I IW N'o Dlscouxt fob Clubs. H OTJPI “JOB’ 1 OFFICE. I I Having recently added a variety of New Styles | of TV PE to our Job Department, we are prepared |[ to execute every description of LETTER PRESS PRINTING lu a superior manner, and on reasonable terms. Among the assortment are some Mammoth Type j for POSTERS. From Ike il -'i fsjomery Advertleer, Dee. 29. To Kansas Emigrants. Numerous applicants to join my company, hav ing propounded very many questions touching mv plans, views, offers, time anu place of rendezvous i n-starting, mode of travel, outfit, Ac., I i:i this I way answer all at once. Ist. 1 propose to take to Kansas as ninny as will / 1, who are old enough and strong enough to per form light military duty, and are likely to be a I benefit to that country, and without regard to whether they are old enough to vote or not; and I will take for granted, that nearly all who go pro fessing to be friends of the South, will prove such, uo matter where they were born, and birth-place shall he no objection. J will go with any number that offers, or comes to join me. I have already over ninety applicants, and do not doubt being able to raise a company, highly respectable, in I point of numbers, character and intelligence, j 2d. “ What so far is the character of the appli | cants, and who will 1 take?” For the most part, j the applicants are clever, honest, poor, young men, I from the country, without wife or children, and ac customed to agricultural labor; and such ! prefer. Resides these, there are several young merchants, clerks, mechanics, printers, editors, one physician, | and three yotmg lawyers of fine education, charac t r and in: illigeuce. Also, several married men v who will Icav - their families, and send for them after the first year; and this is the best plan for I men with families ; for if we get there in March, .■as 1 hope to do it will he cold and uncomfortable ! for women and children to remain in tents till • I houses could be built. 1 will, however, take entire J families, women, children and negroes. Provided, I the pre-emption claims of the father and larger ! children will he sufficient to indemnify me for the j expense, or if the lather can pay the deficit—for ; example, a father with a wife, ten children and five i negroes applies, sav there are two sons large enough to settle oft' to themselves, and take their j pre-emption or donation claims; and a wife, eight j I children and five slaves not entitled.to pre-emptions. 1 would charge the father and two sons for trails- ; portution and subsistence to Kansas, half their j pi.-emption claims, or if they were entitled to do- I nations instead of pre-emptions to one hundred 1 and sixtv acres, each, then 1 would only require from each of them fifty acres of their respective ' donations, and for transportation and subsistence j of the w ife and eight children, and five negroes, I i would charge, say for the wife, fifty dollars, for the j t.-iiiale children over fifteen years old forty dollars : each, for those between five and ten, twenty dol lars each, and for female children under five, ten ! dollars each, male children and slaves 1 will take i at one-fifth less rates. And to encourage the taking of a few slaves, for the first one 1 would charge onlv half-price, fu payment, 1 will take pre-emp tion lands at three dollars per acre, or donation lands at four. And besides, as there will be pri- t rate contributions reaching from five hundred, to j perhaps as many thousand dollars, to enable me to j earn emigrants without any charge to them, 1 j will put on the free list those who have families in j preference to those who have none so that till ; tilings considered, I think I shall be able to take I all that apply, trusting to their pre-emptions, and j to private contributions to indemnify me. “ What inducement do 1 offer to mechanics, ] ministers, civil engineers, surveyors, printers, se- { 1 rretaries, agent-, Ac., and what to others?” Os j the professions, and offices above specified, we til- j ready have as many as meet the exigencies of the expedition, and hcreaft.-r place them on no better : footing than agricultural applicants, except that, I | would prefer them on the free list to agricultural j applicants, for the reason that they would not be ! ! so apt to obtain pre-emptions or donations of land, j as 1 understand that to require actual residence on, j and cultivation of the Inna. Hut still 1 have rea son to hope that private contributions will so far i extend tm free list as to enable me to take all who j could not otherwise remunerate me. Let all apply, ; B let all come. The inducement T offer, is to transport the erni- i ® grant to this paradise where he can get a fee sim | pi,> title to eighty acres of such land, convenient j to market anu good navigation, and only for the j i . trouble of settling on it and going to work ; in , other words, l will furnish him subsisted-o and 'transportation to Kansa t< . one-halt of !n< one ' hundred and sixty acres preemption claim, and ; ■ pav the entrance money for the whole; or, if lie I k gets a donation, 1 will transport and subsist him to Kansas for fifty acres of his one hundred and sixty acres donation—and if lie wishes before start ing to be guarantied against starving, I will, for forty acres more, subsist him till he can get em | plovmcnt. And beside this, as I propose to snip for recruits j route at Columbus, Tuskegee, Montgomery, S-lma, Cab-aba, Mobile, New Oil ins, Natchez, ■ Vicksburg, St. Louis, Ac., 1 doubt not the citizens I of those places would furnish the company with j means to procure a good military, and perhaps j even agricultural outfit; as also means for a tern- i povarv subsistence after reaching Kansas. 4th*. As to the outfit required to join the expedi tion, it will be onlv an honest lace, and health, ‘ strength and appetite, to take soldier's fare. Rut j all who can, ought, to take ammunition, a rifle or \ ■ musket, from oue to four blankets, warm cloth- j C ing— flannel shirts inclusive —with doth for tents. sth. The duty required of all not on the list of gratuitous transports, is to get a pre-emption or land donation, if possible: and consistently with that object, to go where and when they please. Ot course, if civil disturbances arise, every citizen | will be expected to defend, as far as he well can the right side; and though it will be desirable to ; keep up the military organization of the company, and have stated drills; yet any military services must be left to each one’s sense of expediency, as ; there is no law to enforce them. Ot course it will be to the common advantage for all to settle as near together as possible; for tile members of such a companx would naturally help, protect, and defend each other through life, and this is another induce- I ment tii goiug with a company. 1 have been asked if 1 would, without charge, allow persons to join the company who would pay their own expenses? I will freelv do so; but then such would not be hem-fitted.by any contributions that may be made us by the wav. •fib 1 that of a military com pany with officers corresponding to company in service—leader, to be captain, with power of re moving subaltern officers. All officers under cap tain to he elected by the company. Character of is subsence and transportation such as is usual with soldi-.-! - in service—for instance, steerage passage, with sufficiency of such food as is usually furnished the artuv. Eufaula, Silver Run, ton the Mobile and Girard Railroad.) Columbus and Montgomery, will be the places of rendezvous ; hut tho>e with women and children must rendezvous at some point on the railroad. Single men may rendezvous at Eu fattla on the sth ot February next, and emigrants of any other description may rendezvous at the other points bv the loth of February. We will go bv railroad and steamers, either by the Mobile and New Orleans, or by the Atlanta and Nashville j route, according to ilie state of the Alabama River. L If fifty or more single men, armed and uuiiornied, K prefer to rendezvous at Charleston, Columbia, Au gusta, Savannah or Atlanta, and apply, I will re ceive them there. 7th. Rations will be issued from the day ap pointed for rendezvous, up to ten days after land mg in Kansas, but no provisions will be made foi furnishing subsistence prior t" the time ot ren dezvous, because the men would be worn out by a long encampment, become demoralized, and de syrt. The women and children will have Die satin character of subsistence and transportation wit! the meu. 1 have already ninety-four direct applications beside many others I hear of wishing to go. i confidently expect over a hundred iu company embracing every profession and class of society I will go if I get but tea; and will start from Ett faula, via Silver Run. Columbus. Opelika ans Montgomery, on the eleventh day of February next, and I will take all who join me. J. Buford. Thus t revtr> Disclosures. —It is said that th< family' of the late Robert Schuyler are determiner to make such disclosures as his death enables then; to, and which, it is asserted, will relieve his mem ot v from a large share of the obloquy that now lupon it in connection with his enormous de tslcacations. We learn that this threat causes f good deal of fluttering in certain quarters, and i s supposed that p.u-ti-s hitherto unsuspected wfl' le held up in no -unenviable light, if a full state meat is made. Presbyteri vn Om-Kcu.-The pews of this Chord tvere rented on Monday, 31st ult, realizing upward: \ ; ? wmeh amount v« uld have been increas » mi for the want oli pews, leaving manv appli 4.,.s imsupplu-d. it is gratifying to announct -a: trust, buich >s tree from any incumbrance. Coin minis Tints, Jan. 2, Falls of Niagara. The following sketch of the Falls of Niagara is from the pen of Dr. Francis Lloyd, of Frankfort, Kentucky, and is one of the best descriptions of that aquatic wonder, for a brief one, that we have cter met with. The Doctor saw all that tvas worth seeing, and describes graphically and well what ihe saw; whereas, some tourists see what they do not describe, and describe what they do not see. j Fiordeiisa and Giovanua were two young ladies, 1 t’“e travelling companions of Dr. Lloyd ; “ If was raining nearly the whole of Monday ; our last day at the falls; but bv the help of Stacks j we contrived to spend all the day in sight-seeing. ■ We crossed over to the American side, bv the new ' railroad suspension bridge, two miles below the itai s. this bridge was completed and open for ; railroad transit last March. It cost *SOO (/hi. It is, perhaps, the grandest public work in the West- I etn Hemisphere, and would, of itself, repay the , tourist for his trip to Niagara. It is of enormous j strength and magnitude, and seems destined to , endure for centuries. The bridge is slung, in a i single span of eight hundred feet, by wire cables I troni towers eighty feet high, erected on the cliffs j on the opposite banks of the stream ; the lower floor is two hundred and fifty feet above the wa ter. There is an tipper and lower road-way; the ! trains run on the roof of the bridge, over ait open ! tube beneath, appropriated to carriages and foot ! passengers. By circular iron staircasses at each end of the bridge, you mount and walk upon the roof; the view from here, of the falls and of the surrounding scenery, is enchanting. We crossed the suspension bridge three times ; on two of the occasions a locomotive, with a long train of freight | cars, was passing over head; the passage of the train sounded like loud thunder, but we did not perceive the slightest tremor or vibration in the structure. “We passed up the American shore, through the village of Niagara Falls, and crossed over to Goat Island, by a bridge extending from the main land through Bath Island, a small islet lying between. N ou have a fine view of the rapids from this bridge, and it puzzles one to conceive how a bridge could ever have been built just above the great falls in such a ferocious current, the waves foaming, and raging, and rushing down the slope like ravenous wolves. Below this bridge, the hack driver point ed out to us “A very ’s log,” so called from a young German who perished there to two years ago. lie was taking a pleasure sail with a companion; the boat capsized, his companion was immediately swept over the falls. Avery was seen next morn i ing clinging to this log. Strenuous efforts were j made all day to rescue him ; and late in the after : noon, just at the moment that his deliverance | seemed assured, he fell into the rapids, and was hurried over the cataract in the presence of thou ! sands of anxious spectators. “We drove slowly round the margin of Goat | Island in a pouring rain, stopping every now and j then to examine the river, and its rapids, and its j pretty romantic islets, from the different points of j view. At the extreme western end of the island we alighted, descended the bank, and walked over : a shaky wooden bridge, built out over the rapids, to the very verge of the cataract. Here, on a huge boulder, a stone tower has been erected, forty-five feet high : you ascend by a flight of spiral stairs inside, and step out at the top on a balcony, pro tected by an iron band-rail. The first glance at the falls from the summit of‘Prospect Tower’ is really appalling to ordinary nerves ; but you soon get used to it. Vou find yourself standing on a pinnacle almost immediately over the western edge of the great horse shoe fall; around you a foaming expanse of roaring waters, eternally rushing on ward and over into the boiling abyss beneath. “ Nowhere else do you feel the sublimity- ot Ni agara so intensely, as when looking down from the top of Prospect Tower oil that raging sea and those aw ful sheets of grass-green water. And here es pecially you can understand why no painting can convey an adequate idea of the grandeur of the mighty- cataract. Gan the pencil hope to portray the resistless velocity, the down-rush and the roar of those maddened waters, forever and forever tumbling over the rocky- barriers which dam up the outflow of America’s great inland seas? “The depth of water on the rim of the great horse-shoe fall is estimated a! about twenty-feet. A few years ago an old ship, the Detroit, which was purchased for the experiment, was filled with wild animals and sent over the falls: she struck ground in the rapids above, and broke to pieces; but one half of her hull, which drew eighteen feet when tilled with water, passed clear over the center of tin- great fall without touching bottom, in the pres ence of hundreds of spectators. “Our Hillsborough friends had left its just after our arrival at the Clifton House, and had crossed the river to seek a bridal party- they were to meet at the lulls. They rejoined us on the following dav. bringing the party with them ; the groom, u Pro lessor of a Virginia College, a pleasant, intelligent gentleman, and his bride, one of the fairest daugh ters of the Old Dominion. On our return from Goat Island to Canada side, our three parties uni ted in.an excursion on ‘the Maid of the Mist.’ This is a tiny steamer, which makes a succession of dai ly trips up and down Niagara river, carrying tour ists along the edge of the line of falls, up as near to the foot of the horse-shoe as she dates venture. To protect her passengers from the clouds of spray while examining the scenery from her upper deck, site furnishes them with huge hideous hooded cloaks of oiled canvass. A group of tourists, shroud ed in their long canvass drapery, cut an unearth ly figure- something as you would imagine like a tv op of jolly ghosts slipped out of the sepulcher on a spree, and overtaken in their levels by the morning light, but too full of good liquor to melt into thin air. Our party were enraptured with the novelty and excitement of the scene; and they jumped and rolled about on the deck of the danc ing steamer, while I-’iodclisa gallopaded up and down to the musid of the roaring cataract. But the pretty bride, sick from the rocking motion of the boat in the tumbling billows, and pale as her frock -as Othello says of liis murdered Desdemo na—sat clinging to the hand-rail, ready at each moment in contribute another cascade to the three existing falls. While onr stcamerlet was battling in the spray of the great horse-shoe fall, we looked up through the mist to the tower on high, and saw, "as through a glass darkly,” its balcony crowded with ladies and gentlemen, all looking down with wonder on the troop of lunatic ghosts playing their fantastic gambols on the deck ot that spectral bark. " As Fiordeiisa and Giovanua seemed to enjoy a ducking so well, we proposed to tln-m, while they were in for a wet frolic, to go at once behind the . groat sheet of water, to which they- joyfully assent ed. Away we hied to the museum at Table rock. - Here our two belles, with another one bound on tii- same adventure, w ere led off'into the ladies’ dressing-room. In this, we are told, the ladies are required to leave all the drapery they carry in with them, even to the ultlnium m iusiuiii, and to dun a sum-v costume of yellow oil-cloth, with coarse yarn stockings and gum brogans to match. We followed the guide through a yard full of chained live foxes, wolves, and other interesting pets, into a rough plank shed used as a gentleman’s dressing room. We were speedily ca sed up in a helmet and suit of ; armour of damp mouldy oil-cloth, and decorated with a cravat, fine and white as a square off a bed sheet that had seen six months’ service unwashed in a negro quarter. Then we returned to the front j door of the museum to await the advent of our fait i ‘ companions. Viter a long delay, there was an ex plosion of laughter inside, and oui sallied on us i three hideous hooded hugs in brimstone-colored . oil-eanvass, had caricatures of Macbeth’s trio of j witches. We started back aghast, aud were about i ■ to apostrophize the foremost oue in tin- language ot , ; Milton's Satan ; - • Whence, and wh it are thou execrable shape?” when her cowl fell back, and revealed the merry! eve, pearlv teeth, and sweet rosy dimpled cheeks i of Fiordeiisa. “ Our spectral guide now made his appearance ; | and marshaling his scarecrow band in front of the museum, he gravely led off the procession across the road, through a crowd of hackmen, tourists, showmen, mid runners, to the head of a flight of stone steps winding down the cliff'. As we were descending the stairs, we could not avoid noticing an extensive solution of continuity in one of the hose of the damsel next to us, the dazzling white ground underneath contrasting so queerly with the coarse gray speckled yarn and the big clumsy bus kin- m which the little feet were clattering along. At the foot of the stairs we struck a narrow path hewed out .of the face of the cliff, immediately be r neatlithe overhanging Table rock. Right ahead - : of us was the western edge of the sheet of the great ■ hot --, -ho- fall, tumbling down in eternal rush over the projecting ledge above, leaving a lofty aud spa ■' cions cave between it and the receding face of the 1 ! cliff behind._ ( imtioH-.lv following our guide we entered the jaw? ■■ t f- - - yawning grotto. At first , it tva- tolerably plain sailing; but all at once we I found ourselves buffeting and battling for breath . m a horrid medium ot tailing water and rushing spray. 11 e struggled onward for a while, but cal culating 'hsi the cataract was going to be too manv 1 for its, with one consent tto all turned about, and ,- retreated to the entrance ot the watery cave. Our guide, who had preceded u>. now emerged from be -1 hind the curtain ot mist, and beckoned us onward. \. we were hesitating, lie seized the hand of one of his clients, mid instructing how to creep slowly t along close to the cliff with face averted from the i falling sheet, he led out each of its in turn to ‘ter mination rock,’ where the visitor looks down into a vast seething cauldron of mist —a hell of waters. “ As the figures in our procession came creeping i out in Indian file from behind the wet sheet, all t 1 dripping with spray, the water oozing out of hoods, 1 shv.vs. and slippers, we noticed a pair of English - tourists, who liad stationed themselves at the foot of the stairs, to watch the evolutions of the brim stone-colored adventurers; they were laughing ready to split. We invited the lady to dare experi . - ment herself; but she shook her head. . “Every one told us that passing behind the - horse shoe fall was quite safe ; but we do not now think so, although as vet no accident has occutre I there to adventurers*. To reach the rocky shell upon which vou crawl behind the sheet ot water vou must pass under the table-roek. This is a ledge considerably overhanging its base, like the leaf of a table; whence its name. The action of the cataract is constantly undermining the rocky darn over which it falls, aud crumbling off fragments from its lip. Table rock is a continua tion of the ledge over which the horse-shoe tum bles, and is just level with the crest of the cataract. Several large fragments of table rock have fallen at different times; a chunk as large as a State house broke away two years ago, at which time several persons liad a narrow' escape of their lives. Now, in crossing the road to descend the steps which conduct you beneath table rock, you step over a rent in the ground. This fissure, say the guide books, is one hundred and seventy-five feet King, eighty deep, and from five to fifteen inches in width; it * separates from the main land a huge mass of the table rock, poised apparently upon a narrow edge, and just ready to slip off into the gulf beneath. It is certain to fall shortly, and may do so at any moment; and its fall would involve the cer tain destruction of any party who might be at the moment either beneath tfie edge or behind the sheet of water ” Intercourse between the Free and the Slave States. The message of the President is all that could be expected bv the South, as regards the institution of slavery. Front his position, in the highest office in the whole country, the entire Union must be inclu ded in his consideration; and it is sufficient, and all the South has ever asked, that what is given her by the Constitution she shall be allowed in quiet to enjoy. Mr.[Fierce has shown the inclination to ac cord this justice. He has presented the comparison between the Northern and the Southern States iu their deportment towards each other, and has made the display of fanaticism with all its repulsive fea tures. We notice, in this part of the Message, that there are points which w-e have already urged upon our readers, namely, that some of the Northern States are at work in the perpetration of acts which, were the States entirely independent sovereignties, and utterly- disconnected in their government, would he an unequivocal casus belli, is presented as an important consideration. It' the South had hut the power to make treaties according to the necessities of her political institutions, this truth would not have to be lamented. When it shall become the interest of the North to let the South alone, we shall be troubled no longer. Our amiable cousins of the non-slaveholding States are not greatly given to sacrificing profit to principle. As the Federal Gov ernment is at present constituted, fanaticism is al lowed to utter its own language for the reason that no one is likely to be called upon to be responsible for its effects. It is harmless in its own neighbor hood and the conservative portion of the communi ty. who might hold it in check, are unwilling to make the exertion necessary- to that end. But let the facts become changed let the men who rule the fortunes of the North beheld to answer for the deeds of the government underwhich they live, and these ridiculous and fanatical demonstrations, of which we have so great experience, will be at an end. Charleston ti/anda> J. Department Reports. Washington, Jan. 2.— The report of the Secreta ry of the Interior is interesting. The cash receipts from sales of l#nds during the year show an in crease of nearly *2,500,00'.i, and the sales eight mil lions live hundred thousand acres over the prece ding year. The decrease in the number of acres located on scrip and warrants is upwards of two million acres. Efforts are making to adjust all the claims of the States for lauds. The Mesilla Valley contains twenty million acres, and parts of it are very- productive of grain; gold, silver, and copper, are also found on the hills. The amount of stocks held in trust for the various Indian Tribes is 000,000. The Secretary recommends a more liberal and generous policy towards the Indians. The correspondence relative to the Sound Dues is published. Denmark holds the right to the Sound Dues, independent of all treaties, and never will consent to abandon it. Ou the 14tli of April, Mr. Henry Bedinger, resident U. S. Minister at Co penhagen, by instruction of iiis government, gave notice of the termination of the Convention. The Danish and Foreign Ministers hoped that proposi tions would he made to open the way for a new Treaty, to prevent placing the vessels of the United States upon a fooling different from those nations to whom no favor was shown. In October, Den mark recommended that a Congress of Powers should he held at Copenhagen in December. An early date was fixed in consequence of the strenous urgings of England and Prussia and the other Pow ers, and ii was proposed that the Capitalization Dues should he the basis of the quantity of mer chandise passed through the Sound and the Belts Mr. Marcy, on the 3d’ of November, (wrote Mr. Bedinger that the President contained to decline the invitation, without questioning the fair inten tion of Denmark, and claimed that he was vindi cating a great national principle, which if yielded in one case, it would be difficult to maintain in oth ers. Another objection was that the dated States would never consent to the pretension that the new world should lie appropriated to adjust the political balance of the old world. While considering that the free navigation of the Sound was an indubita ble right, the United States was willing to pay an equivalent for any advantages derived from outlays keeping up light houses, buoys Ac. Telei/rap/tfd for the Baltimore Patriot. Proceedings in Congress. W isuiNGTOX, liecemher 31.—House—Immedi ately after the reading of the Journal. Sidney Webster, Esq., the Private Secretary of the Presi dent, appeared, announcing a Message from the President of the United States. Great excitement was produced, amid which Mr. Clinguian moved that it. be read in order to hear what it was. Mr. Morgan called the yeas and nays on the mo - tiou that the message be read. He wanted no read ing rill the House be organized. Mr. Giddings and others anxiously struggled for the floor. Mr. Clingnnui did not know what the message contained, blit the President had a right, on the ! assembling of Congress, when in his judgment it was necessary, to communicate in writing. The Constitution gives hint that authority. Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, contended that the read ing of the message is transacting business, and holding that no business can be transacted until the House is organized, the sending of the mes sage in advance of an organization was an inno vation. Mr. Clingmttn said he was perfectly willing that gentlemen shall decide upon a quesiion of order. Mr. Orr said that the Constitution expressly re cognizes this body- as the House, saving that the House of Representatives shall choose their Speak- : er and other officers he thought that Mr. Camp bell, of Ohio, raised his point too soon. It was re spectful to the President that the Message should he read. Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, replied that it was utter ly useless to have it read unless they could do something with it after it was read. Mr. Stephens insisted that the message should he read. It might contain matters of importance for Congress to know. Mr. NVasbburnc, of Maine, contended that this assemblage was not a Congress, and the President , cannot communicate with it till it organizes. Mr. Giddings said this was too great a question jto be decided technically, lie wished to meet it 1 frankly and boldly on its merits. It was an at- j i tempted iunovatioff on the practice of tins Govern- ; j ment. If it was important for the President to j j communicate, why did he delay doing so for four ; ; weeks? HelMr. G.) would not submit to such ! j proceedings. ! The debate concerning the constitutional power : j of the President in the above premises proceeded, j | during which Mr. Orr said that the sending of the j ; message at this time was an innovation, lint the ex- I | traordinary scene here presented justified the Pres- j j ideal in taking the responsibility. The question ! ! was, shall it be received ? j Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, did not know what , j was in the message, but suggested that there might i he important facts communicated which would ; : cause them to organize. At all events it was their ! 1 duty to organize. Section three, of article two, of j the Constitution, was in these words: “He shall, from time to time, give to the Congress informa tion of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordiua j ,-v occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them Jtc.” The President had, in accordance with this constitutional requirement, felt it his duty to communicate to Congress. The House was unor ganized, it was true; but it was respectful to the 1 President that his communication should be read. He agreed with the gentleman from Ohio that no action could he had upon it until after an organiza tion liad been effected. Nf r. Stephens read from the Manual to show that in the British Parliament cases of failure had oc curred to elect a Speaker, yet messages have pass ed between the King and the House of Commons, in one instance for fourteen days; and argued tiom this that the House might receive the message. ’ j Mr. Marshall thought the message should be re ceived and laid oil the table till the House it as or j. ganized A Serious Accident. — We regret that Mr. Tlios. Nix. our City Sexton, was lust Monday morning thrown from the hearse by the horse becoming 1 frightened and unmanageable, and was then kick ed repeatedly bv the horse attached to the hearse. - One of his thighs and a finger were fractured, and he received severe kicks in his side. Me under j stand that though so badly-injured, hois thought | to be doing pretty well. —Oolumbns Sun, Jan. 2. !* The City Council of Indianapolis, at a recent - session, resolved to dismiss the watch force of ' that city. The motive for this is alleged to be the exhausted condition of the financies of the e city. v 1 A genius has just invented a stove that saves If 1 three-fourths of the wood, while the ashes makes pays for the remainder, BY TELEGRAPH. * | Charleston, Jan. 3, P. M.— Cotton.— The sales i I for the week, amount to eight thousand bales. - | Middling fair is quoted at 9%c. to 9%c. Receipts for the week eight thousand six hundred bales. | Stock on hand, exclusive of all on shipboard, for . tv-'-’even thousand bales. The market is drooping. Rice.—Sales for the week two thousand four ! hundred bales. The market is advancing. Good , may be quoted at 4% to 4%c. Stock on hand four > thousand bales. : Grain. —The market is depressed. | Freight.—To Liverpool—Cotton 7-l(!d.. to Ha vre 1 c. , Congressional. Washington, Dec. 29. The Senate was not in session to-day. Horse of Representatives.— Worn out with talking, worn out with criminations and recrimina tions, worn out with statements and counter-state ments, the majoritv changed front to-day, bv un dertaking to test the virtue of pertinacious ballot ing, in the vain hope that something would “turn . up.” Ballot after ballot was taken—the Banks vote now coming up to and now falling from the old mark, but not to an extent to inspire hope on the one side, or excite apprehension on the other. After a fatiguing session of six hours, the House adjourned, and adjourned with the general convic tion that the prospect of a speedy organization was as gloomy as ever. The attendance in the galleries was small to-day, in consequence of the stormy weather.— Union. j Telegraphed to the Baltimore Patriot.} Pittsbfro, Jan. I.—A terrible accident occurred near Darlington, Beaver county, on the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad, last evening. Several per sons are reported killed. At 4)4 o'clock, yesterday afternoon, the three o’clock train, going West du the Ohio and Penn sylvania Railroad, came in collision with the fast train coining East at Darlington Summit, The ac cident occurred at the heavy curve, and was quite disastrous in its effects. Four persons were killed; Mr. Stokes, the Agent of the New Castle and Erie Stage Company; a man named Johnston, an Irish man ; and another individual whose name is not ascertained. About sixteen were wounded—among them the engineer of the express train and the fire man, the latter having one arm shattered. The locomotives and cars were badly shattered, both trains being under full headway. The accident was caused by the watch of the conductor of the fast train being three-quarters of an hour slow. Washington, Jan. I.—We have beautiful weath er here to-day all public business is suspended. The Diplomatic corps paid their respects to the President at eleven o’clock, in full costume. At noon the doors were thrown open to the public, thousands ot whom are in attendance. A band of music is adding to the festivities, and altogether there is a joyous time. Xew \ ohk, January 2.— Cotton is quiet, and only 300 bales changed hands at 9%c. for Middling Or leans, and 9%c per lb. for Middling Uplands. Flour is higher, and Ohio is worth §9.75 per bbl. Wheat is lower, and White is quoted at §2 per bushel. Corn is unchanged. New \ ohk, January 2. — The Bank of the Re public quotes Banker’s Drafts on London at from 108% a 108% ; Southern Bank Drafts at from 103% a 108%; and Produce Drafts at from 106 a 107. Erie Railroad was quoted at 51%, and Reading at 93%. Walker —The last two arrivals from San Juan del None brought letters to Washington which render it certain that Walker’s situation there is exceedingly critical, notwithstanding the glowing accounts of the prosperity of his affairs, written by his followers for publication in the United States. He cannot trust a single uative beyond the range of the rifles of his men. Ilis military j chest does not contain a dollar. The §12,000 which Parker 11. French brought to this country was every dollar that Walker lias been able to clutch in Nica ragua, and he was forced to part with it, without as succor of men and material from the United States, starvation, il not immolation, stared his maraud ing band in the face; and it (succor) was only to be obtained here through the application of hard dollars. All Walker’s hopes turned upon getting olf French’s New York and New Orleans (filibus tering expeditions in safety. The government having summarily stopped them, it will not be long ere Walker and bis band go the way of Kin ney and his. At one time, il will be recollected, it was represented in the newspapers to be in almost as triumphant a position in Nicaragua, as Walker and his are now said to be.— Hiwiingtmi is'tar. Found Dead. —The body of a negro man named Joe, belonging to the estate of Mr. Wolf, was found yesterday in the woods. It is supposed he died from the effects of liquor. A negro man named Moses, the property ot , Robert Habersham, was found drowned in Savuu- | nab river. An inquest in each case rendered a i verdict in accordance with the facts stated. Snv. Pep., .Jen. 3. j It is staled in the English Churchman that one hundred Episcopal ministers in Great Britain have j gone over to Rome since the advent of Trinitarian- I ism. Sir Root. Peel, Bart., is about to man e the lady Jane Hay, daughter of the Marquis of Tweeddale, and sister of the Duchess of Wellington. The St. John News complains that not a turkey, goose or chicken can be had in that market, ex cept about Christmas time ; and furthermore, that all the shad are carried off to the United States under the operation of the Reciprocity Treaty. lu the lower house of the Texas Legislature, the Committee on Public Debt has made r. majority report in favor of accepting the act of Congress on the subject. Dat Old Niggur Dickson. Mr. Dickson, a colored barber, in a large New England town, was shaving one of his customers, a respectable citizen, one morning, when a conver sation occurred between them respecting Mr. Dick son’s former connection with a colored church in that place: “1 believe you are connected with the church in Elm street, are you not, Mr. Dickson ?” said the customer : “ No sail, not at all.” i “ What, are you not a member of the African | church V” j “ Not this year, sab.” “ But why did you leave their communion, Mr. Dickson, if l mav be permitted to ask?” “Well, I’ll tell you. sab v” said Mr. Dickson, strapping a concave razor on the palm of his hand, “ it was just like dis: l joined the church it! good faith; 1 give ten dollars towards de stated gospil de fust year, and de church people called me ‘ Brudder Dickson;’ de second year my business not so good, and 1 give only live dollars. Dat year de profile call me ‘ Mr. Dickson.’ Dis razor hurt you sail “No, the razor goes tolerably well.” “ Well, sab, the third year 1 berry poor, had | sickness in my family, and I didn’t gib niiffnn’ for j preachin’. Well, sail, aider dat dev called me dat ‘old niggar Dickson,’ and I left ’em.” SHIPPINGNEWS, ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON. ; Steamship Southerner, Ewan, New York | Steamship Jackson, Layfield, New York 1 Scbr Francis Satterly, Jackson, New York SAILED FOR CHARLESTON. Ship City of Montreal, Guthrie, Liverpool Ship Xoemie, Johnson, Liverpool Siiip Pride of Canada, Flinn, Liverpool Ship Southport, Wilson, Liverpool CHARLESTON, Jan’v. 3. —Arrived, steamship | James Adger, New York; barque Avola, Boston ; | i brigs Delaware, Baltimore; Huntress, Key West; j Marcellois, Rockland, Me.; Tybee, N York; Tern | : Wm B Scranton, do ; schrs X W Smith, do ; Gun Rock, Lubec, Me. SAVANNAH, Jan. B.—Arrived, steamship Flo rida, New York ; barque Rhone, Stockholm ; brigs | Savannah, Newport; Acadian, Co.ik; schr RS Miller, Philadelphia. : “Sailed, steamship Knoxville, New York. ! GUNS, PISTOLS, POWDER, SHOT, &c. SHAVE just received a large addition to my j former stock of GUNS, PISTOLS and GUN- j XING APPARATUS, which makes my assort* ' : ment complete, and superior to anything in this ■ ; market, and respectfully invite the attention of all j ; who are in want of any article in the line, ft con- j I si.sts of- RIFLES, of my own manufacture; Double GUNS, by the best makers, Steel Barrels; , “ “ Stub Twist, all varieties; Single Barrelled GUNS, Twist Barrels; Deane, Adams & Deane’s Repeating PISTOLS, a superb article; Colt’s PISTOLS, all sizes; also, Allen’s Six Bar relled PISTOLS; Single Barrelled Self-Cocking PISTOLS, Ivory aud Wood Handles; Single Barrelled Rille PISTOLS, Steel Barrels; Powder FLASKS, Shot BELTS, Game BAGS, Dog CALLS, Percussion CAPS, all varieties, Guu WADS, Drinking FLASKS and CUPS, Ely’s Shot CARTRIDGES, POWDER and SHOT, Bar LEAD; , Also, a good assortment of Pocket and Pen , KNIVES, SCISSORS, RAZORS, Ac. Thankful for past favors, and solicits a continuance. Jjjf” Guns Re-stocked and Repaired neatly and j promptly, and Rides made to order and warranted. , j ' E. H. ROGERS, 205 Broad-st. i Augusta, Ga., Dec., 17,1855, ts declV CO MMERCIAL. Augusta Market, Jan. 3, 4 P. M. COTTON.—We have no change to report in the I market to-day. i COLUMBUS, Dec. 29.— Cotton. —Market contin j lies inactive, slight stock offering, and but few : transations. We omit quotations. COTTON STATEMENT. Old stock on hand Dec. 29,1855 524 Received this week 1,168 “ previously 69,779 Total 70,947 Shipped this week 4,002 “ previously 89,326 Total shipments 43,328 Stock on hand this day 80,992 MACON, Jan. I. — Cotton. —There has been very little done for the past week, owing to the holidays and unfavorable weather. We quote sales from 7 to S)%, and due Cottons are held at 8% cents. COTTON STATEMENT TO JAN. 1, 1856. i Received in December, 1855 bales. .15,438 i “ “ 1854 12,515 Increase 2,923 I Stock Ist January, 1655 23,976 “ 1856 17,298 Decrease 6.678 Total receipts to January 1, 1856 53,123 “ “ “ 1, 1855 37,657 Increase 15,466 SAVANNAH, Jan. I. — G>tton. —The week has been unfavorable to business. Transactions of the week 4845 bales. The market closed firm. The following may be taken as the ruling quotations : Good ifiddling {i @9yg Middling Fair 9%(?19% Fair @9% Total receipts for the week 7,555 bales Upland and 390 Sea Islands. Exports same time 7,819 Up lands and 251 Sea Islands. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF COTTON. fpl’d. S. I. Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1855 800 300 liec’d since Dec. 26.... 7,555 390 Received previously... 179,856 3,572 187,411 3,962 Exported since Dec. 26. 7,819 251 “ previously ... 123,431 617 131,250 86S Stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared January 2,1856 56,171 3,094 SAME TIME LAST YEAR. Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1854 2,600 600 Rece’d since Dec. 26 12,646 748 “ previously 72,895 1,781 85,941 2,529 88,541 3,129 ! Exported since Dec. 20.18,022 239 “ previously 43,410 783 56,432 1,027 Stock on hand and on shipboard not cleared Dec. 27, 1854 32,109 2,102 Rice. —The stock is large, and the demand good —sales 100 casks at 4W. Prices range from 4% to 4% cents $ lb. Bacon. —Light stock on hand, and demand small. Prices nominal, Baggino. —No demand. .Salt. —Large quantity on hand, with a large de mand. Prices from §l.lO to §1.25. Coffee.- Rio held at 12@13 cents. Corn. —The quantity on hand is still small, al though considerable supplies are coming in. Pri ces tend downward. Sales 75 to 85 cents. Flour. —No change to notice. Georgia §9 (ig §9 % Oats. —Limited stock, and large demand. Pri ces 7" to 75 cents. Wheat.— Quantity equal to the demand. Prices §1.90 to §1.95. Receipts light. Hay.— Several small lots received. Prime North ern §l.lO to $ I.37%—Eastern §1.25 @ §1.62. Hides. —There are constantly small lots arriving, principally from the South, but not sufficient to meet the demand; 15% cents easily obtained. Lime. —There is no change in prices, and the supply good. Prices §1 to §1.25. Liquors — Halt.- Scotch Ale, §2 per dozen for j pints; London Porter, §2.75 <& §2.87%. Domestic —Peach Brandy, 55 (5. §1.25; American Gin, 'IS (f?: j 1 0 ; New England Rum, 4" (ci, 50; Philadelphia and j Baltimore Whisky, 40 (« 42 ; New Orleans Whisky ! 42 (a:, 45 cents )-.> gallon. Freight -Foreign To Liverpool, nominal. Coast- j ‘Fife —To New York, 9-16 in steamships, and % iu ; sailing vessels; io Baltimore, 7-16, and to Boston, j 7-16. Wheat, in steamers, to New York, 18e. '(J : bushel; to Philadelphia, 15c.; in sailing vessels, Vic. to New \ ork. To Philadelphia, in sailing vessels 11%. ’ ( ’IIAKLLSi ON, Jan. I.— Cotton. The receipts at this port, since the Ist of September last, amount : to 21.i,633 bales, which, with 1,565 bales remaining on hand at that time, make the total receipts, to date, 217,198 bides. The total exports 147,546 bales, which, deducted from xhe total receipts, leaves a slock on hand and on shipboard, of 69 C 52 bales. The total receipts, at all the Southern Ports, up to the latest dates, amount to 1,392,632 bales, j against 854,596 to tin 1 same date hist season, show- I ing au increase of 538,036, and the total Foreign ! exports, from the several ports in the United States, j amount to 786,971, showing an increase of 234,173 j over last year. CHARLESTON, Jan. 2. Cotton. —There was j quite an active imiuiry to-day, and freely met bv j holders at yesterday’s prices. The sales footed | near 2900 bales, the following constituting the par- I ticulars : 27 bales at 7%; 47 at 8 ; 71 at 8% ; 49 at j 8%; 150 at 8% ; 120 at 8 9-16; 355 at 8% ; 151 at 8% ; 19 at 8532 at 9 ; 620 at 9 ! .i ; 119 at 9 5-16 : | 156 at 9% ; 496 at 9% cents. SA\ ANN AII, Jan. 2.— Cotton. —Sales vesterdav 551 bales, viz: 75 at 8; 124 at 8%; 23 at* B% ; 162 at 9; 167 at 9%. Sales to-day 679 bales, viz: Bat 8% ; 11 at 8% ; 36 at «% ; 379 at 8% ; 149 at 8 13-16 ; 9 at 9; 36 at 9 1-16; 50 at 9%c. (General %lbiicilioemcnts. MR. W. H. CRISP HAS the honor of announcing he will shortly I open the THEATRE, with an extraordinary i attraction, combining the talents of MISS ELIZA LOGAN, the Great Tragic Actress of the day; the young and Beautiful Artiste, MISS LOUISE REEDER; Augusta’s favorite Actress MRS. W. if. CRISP, with the established favorites of the old and dis tinguished members of the New Company. Miss ELIZA LOGAN will be supported in the opposite characters by MR. W. 11. CRISP. The legitimate Drama will be presented with such an array of talent, as must surpass all the Man ager’s previous performances in this city. dec!3 ts 17IOR SALE, TO ARRIVE— ' 100 bbls. Rectified WHISKY; 100 “ LIME, bv dec2o ts GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. FELTONSSELF-SHARPENING ~ PORTABLE MILL, IJOR Grinding all kinds of GRAIN, and also CORN and COB. It is adapted to Horse, Wa : ter, Steam or any power that will run a band. It I occupies a space of only two feet by three, and ! weighs about 300 lbs. The grinding surfaces are ■ of the most durable character, and are “ Self-Sharp | ening.” It is capable of grinding three bushels per : hour with one horse power, and from six to eight I bushels with two horse power. Young men will find the sale of these Mills through the country a profitable business on small outlay of capital. For further particulars, and to see the Mill in operation, call on GEORGE M. TAYLOR, at Augusta Hotel, who has the sale of Mills for the Southern States, and also, sale of rights to manufacture, janl d6*cU £!IXTY DAYS after date, application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Richmond | county, for leave to sell the Real Estate, and Ne groes belonging to the estate of Davis B. Hadlev, deceased. IGNATIUS P. GARVIN, Adm’*. 1 nov6 ORDINAR Y S NOTICE IX \ IIC l TORS, ADMINISTRATOR J and GUARDIANS, are hereby notified, that th. Ordinary will be found at his office, until the loth January next, prepared to receive returns. Those who have omitted to make them for 1554, will take notice, that all such will then be returned to the uew Ordinary, (whoever he may be), whose duty it willjbe to issue process against all such who nuiv have so omitted io make returns. LEON P. DUGAS, Ordinary. dec27 sw.tctJanls LAFAYETTE RACE COURSE. npHE ANNUAL Races A, j .M over the Lafayette Course, at Augusta, will mence on Tuesday, >dh of January next" and con ! tinue the week out. All the crack Horses in the j country will be on the ground. Fine sport may be ! j anticipated. d3*ctd decl j FOR SALE, SH ARES Georgia Railroad Stock. Ap-; 4*o J. ply at the *O3l (BANK. lotteries. I -. GREENE ANI) PULASKI MONUMENT LOTTERIES. Managed, drawn, and Prizes paid by the well known and responsible firm of GREGORY & MAURY. CLASS 4, at Savannah, on Friday, January 4th. AN EXCELLENT SCHEME. $12,000! J $4,000'; $2,500; $1,201; 5 Prizes of SI,OOO, Ac. — Tickets s3—Shares in proportion. Risk on a pack age of 20 quarters $11.22. JOHN A. MILLEN, Agent, ! On Jackson street, near the Globe Hotel. ; All orders from the citv or country strictly con ! fidential. ’ jan.3 ROYAL LOTTERY OF THE ISLAND OF (JUBA , HA VANA. Ordinary Drawing of the 22d JANUAAY, 1856: 1 Prize of SOO,OOO 11 Prizes 0f.... .SI,OOO 1 “ 20,000 20 “ 500 1 “ 16,000 60 “ 400 1 “ 8,000 161 “ 200 3 “ 2,000 16 Approximation 4,800 275 Prizes, amounting to $192,000 Whole Tickets $10; Halves $5; Quarters $2.50. Persons desiring Tickets can be supplied bv ud j dressing JOHN E. NELSON) i dec2B Charleston, S. C. 30,000 DOLLARS! IMPROVED HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY! [By Authority of the State of Georgia .] FORT GAINES ACADEMY LOTTERY. Schedule for January, 1856. CLASS 11, To be drawn January 23d, 1856, in the city of At lanta, when" Prizes amounting to $30,000 Will be distributed according to the following in imitable Scheme. If you draw the lowe3t Prize you get the cost of your Ticket, •without deduction , and remember every Prize is drawn at each drawing. ONE PRIZE TO EVERY TEN TICKETS! CAPITAL PRIZE 810,000. 1 Prize of SIO,OOO 2 Prizes of $2,000 are 4,000 3 “ 500 are 1,500 11 “ 250 are., 2,750 10 “ 110 are 1,100 17 “ 75 are 1,275 43 “ 50 are 2,150 83 “ 25 are 2,075 200 “ 10 are 2,000 j 630 “ 5 are 3,150 : 1000 Prizes, amounting to $30,000 ONLY TEN THOUSAND NUMBERS! | Tickets $5; Halves $2.50; Quarters $1.25. j Bills on all solvent Banks taken at par. All com munications strictly confidential. SAMUEL SWAN, Agent and Manager, j dec27 Atlanta, Georgia. HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY! JASPER COUNTY ACADEMY LOTTERY, j [bv AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. I MACON, GEORGIA. THUS LOTTERY is conducted on the plan | of the Royal Lottery of Havana, of single l | numbers—and Drawn at Concert Ilall, Macon, Ga., j ! under the sworn superintendence of Col. Geo. M. i ! Logan and J. A. Nesbit, Esq. CLASS I. GRAND SCHEME FOR JANUARY 15, 1856, j When Prizes amounting to 60,000 DOLLARS, Will be distributed as follows: 1 Prize of 815,000 i 1 “ 5,000 I 1 “ 4,000 j 1 “ 3,000 i 1 “ 2,000 J 1 “ 1,500 j j 1 “ 1,100 5 Prizes of SI,OOO is 5,000 | | 10 “ 500 is 5,000 10 “ 200 is 2,000 ! 10 “ 120 is 1,200 | 25 “ 100 is 2,500 | 70 “ 50 is 3,500, [ 336 “ 25 is 8,4u0 28 Approximation Prizes 800 j j 561 Prizes, amounting to 860,000 | ONLY TEN THOUSAND NUMBERS. Every Prize drawn at each drawing, and paid, i J when due, in full, without deduction, j Orders strictly confidential. Drawings sent to ! ' orders. Registered letters at my risk. Bills on all solvent Banks at par. Tickets $1"; Halves $5; Quarters $2.50. Address JAMES F. W ENTER. j doc 18 Manager, Macon, Ga. 1 #O,OOO DOLL IRS, A MARYLAND LOTTERY I TO BE I)RA ll'.l ON THE HAVANA PLAN. ! I Office of the Maryland Lotte- j : ITM ries, Baltimore, Dec. 1,18.55. —The Managers I j of the Maryland Lotteries having had it suggested j that the plan of drawing the HAVANA LOTTERIES j has its favorites, and being desirous to gratify the ; public, have concluded to draw a Lottery on the Havana Plan, i On the THIRD SATURDAY IN EACH MONTH. Grand Consolidated Lottery of Maryland, CLASS 5, I To be drawn in Baltimore, Md., on SATURDAY, j j January 19th, 1856. Prizes amounting to 140,000 DOLLARS Will be distributed according to the folhm ing Mag nificent Scheme : 29,000 NUMBERS!—I.OOO PRIZES! FRIZES FAYAULK IN FILL WITHOUT DEDUCTION! ! One Prize to even/ Twenty Tickets. SCHEME: 1 Prize of $50,000 1 “ 25,000 1 “ 8,000 1 “ 4,000 1 “ 2,000 3 Prizes of. SI,OOO are. . 3,000 4 “ 500 arc.. 2,000 66 “ 200 are.. 13,200 122 “ 100 are.. 12,200 4 Approximation Prizes of. 200 are.. »00 4 “ “ 150 are.. 600 4 “ “ 125 are.. 500 4 *' “ 100 are.. 400 4 ‘‘ “ 75 are. . 300 12 “ “ 70 are.. 840 16 “ “ 50 are. . 600 264 “ “ 25 are.. 6,600 488 “ “ 20 are.. 9,760 1,000 Prizes, amounting to $140,000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. The two preceding and the two succeeding num bers to those winning the first 200 Prizes, are en titled to Approximation Prizes as above. The payment of all Prizes is guarantied by the State of Maryland. All Tickets in the Lotteries authorized by the i State of Maryland, bear the lithoraphed signature ! of “F. X. BRENAN, General Agent for the Con- ! tractor.” PLAN OF THE LOTTERY. There are 20,000 Tickets, numbered from 1 to i 20,0u0. There are 1,000 Prizes. The numbers, from 1 to 20,000, corresponding with those on the tickets, printed on separate slips of paper, are roiled up and encircled with small tiu tubes, and ! placed in one wheel. The amounts of the diffor ] ent 200 full prizes are also rolled up in the same manner and placed in another wheel. The 800 Ap proximation Prizes ate decided as above. After revolving the wheels, a number i.s drawn out of the wheel of numbers, and at the same time one is drawn from the Prize wheel by boys who ! are blindfolded. These are opened and exhibited j | to the audience—the prize being credited to the j number drawn by the Commissioner. The opera- ! tion is repeated till all the Prizes are drawn out. Persons wishing particular numbers must send | their orders earlv, with instructions what to do in ■ case they are sold. The Drawing will be promptly sent to all pur ; chasers. PRICE OF TICKETS: I Wholesslo; Halves $5; Quar. $2.50; Eighthssl.2s. Address orders for Tickets to E. X. BRENAN, Baltimore, Md. decl9 lm FRUITS FOR THE SOUTH. THE subscriber offers for sab- a fine assortment of Fruit TREES, VINES, j Ac., as follows: v 3kios® i APPLES, Southern varieties, one and two year old Trees, some of extra size. PEACHES, of Southern growth, twenty or thirty choice varieties. PEARS, dwarfed on the Anger's Quince stock, I for immediate bearing. PLUMS, a number of choice varieties. QUINCES, the Orange variety, very superior. GRAPES, the Catawba and Scuppernong—choice ! ! rooted vines. FIGS, several choice varieties—rooted Trees. Also, Osier Willow, Roses, Ornamental Trees, Ac., Ac. Now is the proper time to transplant. ; All written orders, left at the office of the Chroni- • ide d- Sentinel, will receive prompt attention. Or j ders from a distance may be addressed, D. RIEDMOND, Augusta, Ga. ! I dec2B abtcO Auction Sales, BY T. M. CATER. j 2454 Bags Rio Coffee, cargo of Ketch Commerce im ported direct from Rio, hu Messrs T ’ s.iC- TO. Rudd. ' ' 1 Jan - at 11 o’clock, on Brown’s VV harf, will be sold— The cargo of the Ketch Commerce, direct from ; Rio as follows: 2454 bags RIO COFFEE, put up in double sacks. Conditions —All sums under SSOO casli • over $50(1 to SI,OOO, ninety days; ami all sums over $l."i)o, four months, lor approved endorsed notes Catalogues will be ready at mv Store on Satur- d Mj 1 ’ jan4 BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO Negroes on account of all concerned. \ TO- MORROW (Saturday), in front of store, at 11 1 o’clock, will be sold, for and on account of the I last purchaser— A Negro Woman, about 38 years old, a Cook and j first rate W a slier and Ironer. 1 —also— i John, a Boy, about 13 years old, a House Servant. | Property warranted sound. Terms cash. jan4 j BY GIRARDEY. WHYTE & Co7 TO-MORROW (Saturday), in front of store will be sold— ’ ’ A large, handsome Bay Horse, seven years olu, a splendid Buggy Horse, gentle and perfectly sound. —also— A second band Buggy and Harness. Terms cash - jan4 BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. TO-MORROW (Friday), in front of store, at 10*4 o clock, will be sold, a general assortment of Groceries, Provisions, Dry Goods, Ac., consisting in part, of Sugar, Coffee, N. O. Syrup, Whisky, Brandy, Gin, Cordials, Svrup, Crockery, Mustard, Pepper', Potatoes, Onions, Cheese, Herrings, Bacon, Ac. -—ALSO — A handsome lot of Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, Jewelry, Guns, Pistols, Ac. —A LSO — One case handsome Over Coats, Frock Coats, Cloth and Cassimere. —ALSO Two handsome secondhand Buggies. Terms cas b- jano BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. Will be rented, at public outcry, that handsome large Room, on the corner of Jackson and Greene streets. It is suitable tor a Family, and admirably adapted for a School Room. Parable quarterly. jan3 EY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. Arcane bales gt Valuable Real Estate and desirable Machinery at Auction, without reserve. WEDNESDAY', the 11th of January next, at the “ United Sid's Hotel Arcade ,” will be sold, com mencing at 11 o’clock precisely, the entire Ma chinery of the Augusta Steam Sash, Blinds, Doors and Flooring Mill, without reserve, con sisting in part of, and to be sold separate, as fol j lows: 1 Woodworth’s patent Planing Machine, com ! plete, and with all the extras; 1 lleardslee patent | Planing Machine, extreme capacity for planing 24 | inch wide plank ; 1 Leavens’ celebrated patent and renowned Sash Machine, with power ana foot mor ! ticer; Boring Machine; Sticking do.; Tennoning, ! or Crosscut and Rip Saws, with extra moulding ; j Plane Bitts, Gunge Springs, Ac. -ALSO One Fay's Tennoning Machine, complete, extra heads; 1 do. Sticking do. do., seven extra heads, ! Cutters, Arbors, Wrenches, Ac.; 1 Fay’s Boring | Machine—lo augers -- complete, and extra set of ! Saws; 1 Fay’s Scroll Saw and Table; I 24 inch : Circular Saw and Table; 1 16 inch Rip Saw and | Table; 1 16 inch Crosscut Saw and Table; 1 large j Grindstone, 5 feet diameter, shaft and crane. —ALSO 2, 3 and 4 inch Shafting, Pulleys, from 2 to 3 and 4 feet diameter, Shafts Belting, of every dimen sion, Work-Benches, Grindstones, Counter Pulley*, complete Turning Lathe. - -ALSO — A lot of Sashes, Blinds, Doors, Ac. —also— The entire Lot and improvements thereon, front ing 280 feet on Mclntosh street, and extending back on Hale street u7O feet. The improvements upon the Lot are too well known to require further j description. For further particulars see our bill-, I The Machinery may be seen on application to 1 Mr. Nixon, at the Mill. This is a most excellent | opportunity for manufacturers to supply themselves 1 with Machinery. CONDITIONS : For Machinery- Sums under S2OO, cash, over j S2OO, and under $460, 60 days; over s4oo’, four i months, for approved endorsed paper, and interes* j from date. Real Estate Sums, cash ; balance I l and 2 years, interest from date, and secured by i mortgage on the property. i Titles indisputable, and made at the expense of ! the purchaser. td dec22 A CARD. j npilE public is informed that in connection with a our general and special sales, we will keep at j our store a general Intelligence office, where en tires for Wants, either Domestic or Commercial, will he entered, and those wishing to sell, hire er exchange will find this an admirable medium to be suited. Persons having servants to let and those want ing them, will find this the most practicable and economising source to send their orders for any 1 commodity whatsoever. Charges reasonable dec27 ts oiRAUnEY. wiiytk a ro !ft IRARDKY, WHYTE & CO. K i u - their wJT special attention to the collection of notes, negotiation of Loans 011 Mortgages, Bonds. Ac. Also, to the private and public sale of all species of incorporated Bank Stocks. Two-thirds of the market value of stocks will bo advanced on all unlimited stocks for sale. Orders for same will be received and filled at lowest mar ket prices. We are always in the market to pm-chase or sell. _ dec27 <f ] GIRARDEY. W HYTE A CO. GREAT BARGAINS! EXECUTOR'S SALE. ITNDKIt and by virtue of a decree in Equity of • Burke Superior Court, November Term, 1855, will be sold, at Cushingville, Station No. 8, Central Railroad, Burke county, on Tuesday, the 22d din of JANUARY , 1856, ail the LANDS belonging to the estate of Augustus 11. Anderson, deceased, lv ing in Burke county, about (6,745) eight thousand seven hundred and forty-five acres. Also, about (75) seventy-five Negro Slaves, among which are a Blacksmith and Tanner. The Land will be divided into four 4) tracts, to suit purchasers; plats of which will be presented for inspection ondav of sale. On one of the tracts is an elegant, completely fin ished two story Dwelling House, of beautiful model, with all the necessary out-buildings, well put up, and in good order. On two other tracts are com fortable Dwelling Houses, with the necessary out buildings. 011 the fourth tract, there are the ne cessary buildings for a negro quarter. On the Forehand tract, one of the two described together, there is about (70 > seventy acres of swamp land in cultivation, with about < 200) two hundred acres woodland, mostly dammed out from the river | Ogeechee, on which it lies. Ail the tracts, except j the first, are well timbered, and with a great deal j of pine timber near the Central Railroad, which passes through all of thcih. There is cleared laud sufficient for cultivation,'on each tract, and each tract so laid out, that they will adjoin either Ogee chee river or Buckhcad Greek—one of them adjoin ing both. There will also be sold at the residence of de ceased, before the sale closes, all the Perishabh Property remaining of said deceased, in Burke county, consisting of about 29 Mules, 6 Horses, *■; head of Cattle, 7o bead of Sheen, Oxeu, upwards of 300 head of Stock Hogs, and a lot of lattens 0 ; Hogs, together with Wagons, Corn, Fodder, Plar.- | tation Tools, Ac. The sale to continue from dav to I dav, until all is sold. ! Terms of Salk—On the Land, credit for one-half ! of purchase monev one year; on the other half two j years. On the Negroes, 26 per cent, cash, same ; credit for balance as on Land. For the Perishable ! Property, one-half cash, balance credit for one year, j except "for sums of Twenty Dollars or under, for I which cash will be required. Notes with strictly i approved security, and with interest from date, will 1 be required on all credit sales, before the delivery j of the property. Purchasers will have the facility of the Central, j and Augusta and Waynesboro’ Railroads, to attend the sale, and fine accommodations near MOSES P. GREEN, Ex r. j Waynesboro’, Dec. 12, 1855. _ d*ctd dec 16 TO HIRE. Mechanics, (looks, Washerwomen and House Servants. AMONG the mechanics are several Masons, Carpenters and Painters. Persons, either in town or country, in want of first rate workmen, such as will be attentive and faithful, may be ac commodated either by the dav, month or year, by addressing the undersigned, through the Post Os fice, or by applying to him personally, »t the resi dence of Mr. Martin, on Ellis street, any day about 1 o'clock. declS dficlm JOB-V H. FITTEN . DAYS afterdate application will be made to the Court of Ordinary of Richmond i county, for leave to sell the Real Estate and Negroes ; belonging to the Estate of Mrs. Sarah Harris, late : of said county. Deceased, i WILLIAM M HARRIS, ( , . . no vs LEWIS N. HARRIS, ) r *.