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V tl*** assortment are some Mammoth Type for POSTERS. se-sacc front the President of the United States, I Cessation of hUtrontri* with the E' 'raordiiKiry atol Minister Plenipoten . rijof Great Britain. nat* awl H«u»< of Representatives : " I have ceased to hold intercourse with the envov and minister plenipotentiary of her the Queen of the I nited Kingdom of Great • tin and Ireland, near this Government, in m.ilcing communication of this fact, it has i d.vtned by me proper also to lav before Con -s the considerations of indispensable public in which have led to the adoption of a measure much importance. They appear in the doeu : mis ic rewith transmitted to both Houses. Franklin Pierce. Washington, May 29 th, 1856. secretary Marcy to Mr. Dallas. Department of State, ) Washixoton, Tuesday, May 27, lSxi. i The President has carefully considered the it.* of the :ioth ult., addressed to you by the Earl Clarendon, her Majesty’s principal Secretary of -ate for Foreign Affairs,-relative to the questions : li have arisen between this Government and 1 ,t Great Britain on the subject of recruiting j ! iii the United States for the British army; and e directed me to present you his views to her j i[, , sty's Government. He has been much grati- | ,! by the conciliatory spirit of that note, and bv j desire manifested by the Earl of Clarendon to ! adust the existing dithculties, and preserve and i . -'hen the friendly relations between the Uni ; States and Great Britain. The vast interest j j «i.i,-It the Government and people of both conn- i j .... have in upholding and cherishing such rcla | m us cannot be more solemn impressed upon her j ,j stv's Government than it is upon that of the j I : t ied States' The unequivocal disclaimer bv her I I deestv s (Government of auv intention either to I nge the law or disregard the policy, or not to j ... ,eet sovereign l ights of the United States, and j ~r expressions of regret “if, contrary to their ■ittious and to their reiterated directions there ! ,s been any infringement of the laws of the | failed States,’’ are satisfactory to the President, i ground of complaint, so far as respects her ! M .iesty's Government, is thus removed. But the ! I’- --ideal extremely regrets that lie cannot concur I herd Clarendon’s favorable opinion of the con ■! of some of her Majesty s officers tvho were, a- mis Government believed, and, after due con-| I . J ration of all which lias been offered in their j a-sense, still believes, implicated in proceedings! h were so clearly an infringement of the laws 11 sovereign rights of this country. In respect to such of these officers and agents as ' j .ve no connection with this Government it has : it hi ng to ask from that of her Majesty—but. the j 1- is different in relation to Mr. Crompton, her j M.i - v's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister I Vnipniciitiary to this Government, aud the Con- ; 1 • -at New \ ork, Philadelphia aud Cincinnati. I President is gratified to perceive that her Ma ■ .tv’s Government would not have hesitated to I r.iply with the request to withdraw these otlicers I ,iu their official position, if it had entertained the I i.-jtvs here taken of their conduct in regard to re -1 tilting contrary to the laws and sovereign rights I f the United States. 1 need scarcely sav that in I making this request no interruption of the diplo- ! | matic relations between this Government and that 1 of Great Britain was anticipated, but on the 1 ntrary, the President was and is sincerely ' 1 lustrous to keep them upon a most friend- I ' footing. Mr. Crampton’s withdrawal was J ;,-Led for expressly upon the ground that “Ins ] nnectiou with the atfair—“raising recruits in ;s country for the British service—has rendered 1 | aan unacceptable representative of her Brit | "..mate Majesty near this Government.” For the tie reason the withdrawal of the three British ] 1 'itstils was also requested. These officers were, a-this Government confidently believes, deeply implicated in proceedings contrary to the law and J v,-reign rights of the United .States, and coiitra j as tt now appears, to the intentions and reiter | .. 1 instructions of their own Government. It their personal acts, not the less objectionable having been done contrary to the directions of rMajesty’s Minister, which rendered them in ir official character and position unacceptable this Government, and induced the President for at cause to solicit their recall, believing that bi as course he was contributing to the common in- * '•■stand harmony of the two Governments. He is not, after most mature deliberation, been able change his view of their conduct, and cannot, -ref'irc, change his purpose in relation to them, •ugh their conduct related to, and in fact <M'ig>- itea a difficulty which disturbed the cordial bar my and good understanding between the two mitries. It constituted a decided objection to em of a personal character, which loses none of < force In the satisfactory adjustment of that dif ulty. Tile only embarrassment which attends the case ts the difference of opinion between the vo Governments as to the complicity of these offi - ui illegal proceedings in the United States. Itt reviewing this subject, the President was dis posed to avail himself of any reasonable doubts »hich could be raised in his mind in order to itig his opinion in this respect into conformity with that of her Majesty’s Government; hut, after •refill consideration of the case, he has been un able tn change the conclusion to which he had , twinnsl v arrived. The difference of opinion may ■ some degree he ascribed to the difference in ' •vs of the two Governments in respect to the -iiti-alin law and sovereign rights of the country, t- not proposed, however, to continue the dis - -twit upon that subject. The conclusions of is' President stated in my dispatch of the 2-th f beceniber to your predecessor in regard to the instruction ot that law and the extent and cliar - -t'of these rights remain unchanged, and he i it forego the duty of using all proper means - tstaiti and vindicate them. Tlie main cause of this difference of opinion is different appreciation of the proofs L>v which - charge against her Majesty’s diplomatic repre • -ntative and Consuls are sustained. Lord Clar •inlon asks this Government to regard the bare declarations of these officers as of sufficient weight ' i countervail evidence against them. Their de als, as presented in his despatch of the 80th of Vprii i and that is all which is communicated to 'his Government on the subject , seem to he special a-id do not traverse all the allegations against mem. Thev deny that they have infringed onr natralitr law by enlisting persons within the Uni d States for British service, or hiring or retain ersons to leave the United States for the purpose of being enlisted in that service. The charges against them are much broader, and embrace the dense of violating the laws and sovereign rights f the United States, by setting in operation witli ; our territory, aud conducting an extensive svs •em of recruiting, which was not and could not be •arried into effect without infringing upon our laws and rights; by employing numerous agents t' engage persons for pecuniary and other consid erations. to leave the l nited States for the express purpose of entering into the British army ; and by keeping these agents 111 this employment after n w .s well known that they were constantly infring -4 our laws. The denial of implicated officers covers a part of the delinquincies imputed to ■'.■-•at, but confining the exculpatory declaration to -iinplc charge of having violated the provis os our neutrality act, it does not merit the ".deration which Lord Clarendon itas subscrib -1 *i By adopting Lord Clarendon’s emstruc ■ f our neutrality law, contained in his note > t!i of November, which renders it almost yatory, and contrary to that of this Government, o:iii of u- judicial tribunals, these officers have 't probably found much embarrassment in mect i - the charges with a general dental—but giving ■ the declaration of Mr. Crumpton aud the Con •vi-' “h the consideration which can be fairly claim ed tor it under the circumstances of the ease, it cannot counterbalance the unimpeached and well sustained evidence which establishes the charges against these officers of having infringed the laws : - were:at: rights of flit Uniti d iftati s. Lrd Clarendon’s note to you of the 3"th of April, uveys the impression that the evidence be "bich the officers arc implicated* is derived hum one or two witnesses," whose credibilitv ' ■ has been assailed. This, however, is not a cor rect view of the facts. By examination of rav de spatch of the 'JSth December, it will be perceived that these witnesses are strongly confirmed, and 'hat there are proofs wholly independent of their - niMny. abundantly sufficient to establish the ■ piicity of Mr. Crampton and the Consuls in their '••..gmeut of the laws and the sovereign rights f the United States. I trust that it will not be ' ted that it belongs exclusively to this Go v• run;, •in and its judicial tribunals to give a cou ruction to its municipal laws, and to determine | J what acts done within its jurisdiction are an in | fringement of these laws. This is a matter which i ] concerns its internal administration, and it can- j cannot allow the agents of any foreign power to j controvert that construction by a different inter pretation of our laws, which virtually renders ! • l i ™V l ineffective for the purposes intended, t /, e „ Ea r' of Clarendon informs you, in his note I j of the 30th of April, that Mr. Crampton positively i d !:?' ea charge of complicity in any of the acts ! : ot illegal enlistment in the United States, and that j tl)e ll “ree Consuls inculpated do the same He as ; sullies that the charge against them is sustained ! S al , y b t v the l evldence of two Persons, Strobel and Hertz, whom he conceives to be unworthy of cred ; It; and he appeals to the American Government to ' accept as conclusive the declarations of the Minis- I : ler “. nd Consuls, lam instructed to sav that these ! considerations do not relieve the President’s mind j°* * ~ m/ a Y o rak *e impressions produced bv the conduct of those gentlemen in relation to foreign i recruitment in the United States. ~ lt .' v ‘ il he by referring to mv despatch of I , le ~ 3 1 fd . December, in which the grounds of charge against Mr. Crampton were fully stated, ttiat the testimony of Strobel and Hertz was quite a secondary, and an unimportant, part of the evi- ; , dence adduced; the charge being supported, inde- ! pendentlv of their testimony-, by other witnesses, j by original letters of Mr. Crampton and others, ’ and by undenied aud undeniable acts of Mr. i Crampton. As to Strobel and Hertz, however, it may be ob served that the documents transmitted bv Lord Clarendon, as proving those persons unworthy of 1 credit, are entitled to but little weight, consisting, j as they do, chiefly of t.r p,irte affidavits, detailing ' matters mostly of mere hearsay. And whatever I may have been the character of those persons, it I by no means follows that they did not testify to the truth. They were agents selected and trusted by ! Mr. Crampton himself, and to them he committed j most important concerns. Such an endorsement j should countervail the impeachment of their ve- ! racitv founded on loose hearsay reports. Nor does ■ it seem to be a thing of much moment, in relation ! to the present question, that Strobel, in conse quence of imputed misconduct, was dismissed front ! employment by the Lieutenant Governor of Nova I ! Scotia, and afterwards endeavored to obtain money i from Mr. Crampton. The fact remains that he i held a commission in the British Foreign Legion, ; and that, as it is clearly proved, and not denied, he maintained, as a recruiting officer, and, for a considerable period of time, association, personally j or by correspondence, with Mr. Crampton. The employment of Strobel by Mr. Crampton, ! their long association in the joint* work of recruit ing in the United States for the Foreign Legion the distinction of her Majesty’s commission of cap- tain in that corps, conferred on Strobe!, would seem, at least, to deprive Mr. Crampton of the | right to deny his credibility as a witness. But there is a larger and more comprehensive ! class of considerations applicable to this particu lar question. For a period of nearly five months —that is, from about the middle of March, 1855, to the sth of August, 1855—the peace and order of ' this country were disturbed, especially in the cities °f Boston Ne w York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, by the unlawful acts of numerous persons engaged in raising recruits, or in being recruited, for the British Foreign Legion. They were supplied with ample funds by British agents. They obstinately resisted and set at naught all the efforts of the lb cal authorities of the United States to put a stop i ; to their proceedings, nor did they desist until they ! received orders to that effect from the British gov- j eminent in the month of August. The recruits : ! thus unlawfully raised in the United States during j I all that time, were conveyed by British agents ' : to Halifax, and there enrolled in the Foreign Le- i | gion. All these acts, as well as their illegality, were 1 notorious. Long before the trial of liertz in Sep tember, and of Wagner, in October, they must ! have been brought to the particular notice of Mr. ! Crampton, the British Consuls, and other agents, | by preliminary judicial inquiries, which took place I both at New York and Philadelphia. In consequence of the steps to that effect taken by me on the 22d of March, the proper instructions were issued on the -3d, and prosecutions com menced in Philadelphia on the 3oth of March, and in New York on the otli of April. As example of the character of these proceed- I mgs, their notoriety, and their conclusive legal effect, what occurred in May, deserves particular notice. At New \ ork, on the 15th of May, a number of persons namely, Godfried, Wacliter, Wilhelm Schumucker, Julius Parkus, Oscar Cromey, and Andrew Lutz—were examined before Commissioner Belts, on the charge of recruitment for the service of Great Britain. Eminent counsel were employed by the parties accused, who argued that no offence hud been committed, because it. did not appear that any valid contract of enlistment had been consummated. But this ground of defence was overruled by the commissioner, who, though he ! discharged Wacliter for defective evidence, com- j milted Lutz, Schumacher, Cromey, and Parkus. , At Philadelphia, on the 25th of May, three per- ; sons, Hertz, Perkins, and Buckuall, having been arrested on the charge of illegal recruiting in the j service of Great Britain, applied to the circuit j Court of the United States, bv fothta* ' to be ] discharged from custody. The presiding Judge, • the Him. John K. Kane, on examination of the ' evidence taken in the case before a commissioner, I found that the proofs were sufficient to bring the j i acts of Hertz and Perkins within the conditions I of the law, hut not so us to Buckuall. Accordingly, 1 the latter was discharged, but the two former were i committed for trial. Thus so early as May, it was judicially shown I that what was doing in this respect was unlawful. Mr. Crampton was acquainted with these pro- j i feedings, and was thus sufficiently admonished ; that the acts of recruitment carried on under his authority did, in fact, whatever may have been his j intention, constitute a violation of the municipal law of tiie United States. This had been decided ! by the courts of the United States, and was pub- \ licly and extensively made known. It is not con- j troverted—indeed, it is admitted—that he had the i recruiting busim ss in his charge, and under his I 1 control ; yet he permitted it to be continued, al though judicially determined to be unlawful, ] through the months of May, June, and July, into August. Now, this l ong series of acts, unlawful and other wise prejudicial to the good name and the tran quility of this country, were performed by per sons who were liberally paid by British officers, and many of whom actually entered the military service of (treat Britain. That was incontestably proved on the trial of Hertz and Wagner, by evi dence which has not been, and cannot be im peached ; and although the evidence adduced on those trials does not ne< d corroboration, still it'mav not be amiss to add that much other evidence to the same effect is in the possession of this govern ment, some of which is annexed to this despatch in the form of documents responsive to those accompanying the letter of the Earl of Clarendon. Who is t > he held accountable for these unlawful acts '.- Were they all performed by volunteer and irresponsible persons, as argued in the Earl of Clarendon’s despatch of the Pith of July v That cannot be admitted for the conclusive reason that j thev received pay from British officers, and, of i course, were employed by some responsible agent ! of the British government. The Lari of Clarendon, in behalf of her Majes- ■ tv's government, disclaims all intention to violate ! the laws, compromise the neutrality, or disrespect the S iveiviuntv of the United States, bv enlisting troops within ibeir territory. The President unre servedly accepts, and is fully satisfied with, this • disclaimer. Os course, the unlawful acts in ques- i turn were not authorised by the British govern- j merit; but the fact is, nevertheless, well established j that thev were done, and done in the name and at the expense of the British government. Who, j then, is responsible for those acts? Were there , no direct proof—though there is much of that j character the inference would be irresistible, that j not being authorised by the British government , ii-elf, they were the unauthorised acts of British agents in the United States. Such agents having acted in wilful disregard of the orders of their government in thus infringing our laws, may have tailed to inform their government that wlmt they had undertaken to do could not be done without infringing those laws; or by mismanagement, in- ; discretion, or over-zeal, they may have participated ! in such infringement, though well knowing it was j contrary to the wishes and the express orders of their government. However this may be, it is certain that agents existed, because their acts ap pear. Who were those agents ? Os tli we were not left in doubt. In the docu ments on the subject recently laid before Parlia ment, it is distinctly stated that the enlisnmcnts in the United States did not stop until Mr. Cramp ton gave orders for their cessation on the Oth of j August. lie had power to stop the acts of enlist ment; lie knew the proceedings were, from the : 1 commencement, exceedingly offensive to this gov ernment, and that it was devoting its active ener gies to arrest them; he was bound to know he could not but know, what was notorious to all the world—that through the months of April, May, June and July, the recruiting ageuts in various parts of the United States, and conspicuously in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, were keeping up a most unseemly contest with the law officers of the United States," and that at least as earlv as May the illegality of the proceedings had been pronounced bv the lederal courts in New York and Philadelphia ; and vet, notwithstanding tins, he permitted the unlawful acts in question to go on, without check, until the month of August. For thus giving countenance to these illegal pro ceedings lie is distinctly responsible. But his accountability extends yet further; for the same documents show that the official sugges tion to the British government of the untoward scheme of obtaining recruits in the I nited states, came from the correspondence of Mr. Crampton, and of the Consuls at New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati; and that to Mr. Crampton were the superintendence and execution of the scheme committed. And thus it is that he who directed : , had the power to atop the proceeding; and thus, frani early in March until August, he is found j busily occupied in superintending enlistments, I partiv m the United States and partly in Canada and Nova Scotia, aud in issuing instructions to •j till r agents engaged in that enterprise, j It does not suffice for Mr. Crampton now to say that he did not intend to commit, or participate in I the commission of, any infringement of the laws of the United States. He was the directing head of long-continued infringements of the law ■ it was under superior authority from him that acts of continuous violation of law were perpetrated by thc inferior agents; some of those agents are proved by his own letters to have held direct in | tercourse with him ; and at every stage of inquiry, tn numerous cases investigated by the American j government, there is reference, by letter and oral declaration, to the general superintendence of Mr. | Crampton. His moral and his legal responsibility are thus i • demonstrated. With full information of thestrin ! genev of the laws of the United States against foreign recruiting, with distinct perception of its i being all but impossible to raise recruits here ; "‘fringing the laws, and with knowledge of the condemnatory judicial proceedings of April i and May at New York and -Philadelphia, yet he i persisted in carrying on the scheme until August, i when its obstinate prosecution had at length brought on a most unpleasant controversy between ! the United States and Great Britain. And it is not ! the least of the causes of complaint against Mr. { rampton that by bis acts of commission in this j business, or in failing to advise his government of the impracticability of the undertaking in which lie was embarked, and the series of illegal acts | which it involved, and in neglecting to observe the general orders of his government, and to stop ! the recruiting here the moment its illegality was pronounced by the proper legal authorities of the ; United States, he was recklessly endangering the harmony and peace of two great nations, which by the character of their commercial relations, and I by other considerations, have the strongest possi : ble inducements to cultivate reciprocal amity. The foregoing considerations substantial! v ap ply to the conduct of the British Consuls at New York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati. Though of subordinate official character, they are not less re | sponsible than Mr. Crampton. The continuous j violation of the law proceeded within their re ! spective consulates month after month, under their eyes, not only without any apparent effort on their i part to stop it, but with more or less of their active participation therein. The consulate at New York i appears to have been the point at which the largest expenditures were made ; and it is proved by documents herewith transmitted, that pay ments at that consular office to same of the re cruiting agents continued to be made by the Sec retary of the Consul, and in the Consul’s presence from time to time, down to the beginning of Jan uary of the present year. The President, as has already been stated by me, cannot admit the force of the objection now urged| of alleged want of respectability on the part of some of the witnesses by whom the facts were proved, and as to whom a prominent cause of such alleged want of respectability seems to he the fact that their evidence has inculpated their accompli ces in the violation of the law. The testimony which most directly inculpates the British Consul at New York, as will be perceived by the enclo sures herewith, is iu the affidavits of the very per sons relied on by her Majesty’s Government for proofs in this case, and whose depositions acconi i panv Lord Clarendon’s note to vou of the 3oth of I April. The Earl of Clarendon perfectly well undestands | that in Great Britain, as well as in the United States, it would he impossible to administer penal ; justice without occasionally receiving the evidence <>f accomplices. In Great Britain not only is evi dence of this class received continually, in State i trials as well as in inferior matters, but rewards ! and other special inducements are held out to such witnesses by not a few provisions of acts of Parlia ment. The competency of such persons as vit nesses in a given case, and their credibility, are, in both countries, questions upon which the court j and jury, in their respective spheres of jurisdiction, ultimately pass. In the present case, conclusions have been established on documentary proofs and other unimpeachable evidence, by proceedings be fore the proper tribunals of the United States, by the verdicts of juries, and by the rulings of judges, j which must be held as final in the estimation of 1 the President. The Earl of Clarendon suggests, as a considera tion pertinent to this question, that the Minister and Consuls hail no means or opportunity of re butting the charges thus indirectly brought against them in the trial of the inferior recruiting agents. In regard to the Consuls, the Earl of Clarendon errs in supposing that they had not full means and 1 opportunity, if they saw tit, to appear and to con front and contradict any accusing witnesses. They were not allowed to interfere in the trials by mere letters written for the occasion, which, indeed, they could not have done lawfully Lad there i been no such prohibition; but if conscious of their i own innocence, and that of the parties on trial, and that their own acts would hear examina tion, it was alike their duty and their right to ap pear and say so on oath, and to contradict by their testimony whatever was alleged against British of ficers or agents if known to them to he untrue. Nor is it any just cause of complaint that evi dence was received upon these trials impugning the acts of Mr. Crampton. It was, indue course ! of proceedings, required to be shown, as against ; the parties on trial, that the recruitments in which they were engaged were for the service of a for eign government. Mr. Crampton was himself i privileged from trial for violation of the mtiniei- I pal law, but the persons whom he employed were j not for that cause to go unpunished, nor was the j i administration of penal justice to he indefinitely j j supended on account of liis position, and the di- j j plomatic immunities by which that conferred. On ! the contrary, it was peculiar proper that the facts i hv which lie was implicated, hut for which he ! | could not be tried, should be verified in due form ; of law for the information of Isis own government, j ! as well as that of the United States. The Earl of Clarendon remarks in his letter of the 30th April that— “ The intentions of the British Government, and the arrangements made to carry those intentions into execution, were not concealed from the Gov ernment of the United States. “Those intentions and arrangements were frank ly stated by Mr. Crampton to Mr. Marcv in a con versation on the 22d of March, ls.V>, and.the only observations which Mr. Marcv made in reply were, that the neutrality laws of the United States would be rigidly enforced, hut that atn number of persons who desired it might leave the United States and get enlisted in any foreign service.” it is incumbent on me to say that, in this re- I spec! tin* Earl of Clarendon labors under serious j misapprehension, which, while it serves in part j to explain how it happened that the enlistments went on for so many months in a manner contrary to the intentions and express orders of the British Government, also serves to increase the weight of Mr. Crampton’* responsibility in this respect. I repeat now, with entire consciousness of its ac curacy, what 1 stated in my letter of the 28th of December last: that at that interview (on the 22d of March, the only one I ever had with Mr. C., as j he admits, in which the recruitment business was alluded tot “he Mr. Crampton] had satisfied me i that his Government had no connection with it, ; and was in no way responsible for what he was doing in the United States to raise recruits for the | British army.” “But lam quite certain that on ; no occasion has he intimated to me that the Bri tish Government, or any of its officers, was, or had been in any way concerned in sending agents into the United' States to recruit therein, or to use any > inducements for that purpose; nor did he ever no tify me that he was taking, or intended to take, j any part in furthering such proceedings. Such a communication, timely made, would probably have arrested the mischief at its commencement.” If he had then apprized me of the system of re cruiting which had at that time been already ar ranged and put in operation within the United ; States by British agents, and under his superin tending direction, he would have been promptly notified, in the most positive terms, that such acts were contrary to the municipal law, incompatible with the neutral policy of the country, a violation of its national sovereignty, and especially excep- tionable in the person of the representative of any ! j foreign Government. Mr. Crumpton admits that I i specially warned him against tlie violation of our neutrality laws, but blames me now for not then 1 ! stating to him that mv construction of that law dit- j | sered from his own ; but no such difference of opin- i | ion was then developed. Mr. Cramptou on that i occasion manifested a coincidence in the opinion i ns to the provisions of that law which 1 then held, i and have since fully disclosed. He called upon me i to show a letter which he had written ou that day j to the Consul at New York, “ disapproving the proceedings of Mr. Angus McDonald I [he thought those proceedings would or might be ta- i ken to constitute a violation of the act of I*lß ” j | the neutrality law of the United States. What were thu proceedings of Mr. McDonald which Mr. j Crumpton thought might constitute a violation of \ our neutrality ? The simple issuing of a hand-bill j 11 specifying the terms on which recruits would be 1 received ut Halifax into the Queen’s service. This I opinion of Mr. Crumpton ascribes as much strin- ! ' j gcncy to our neutrality acts as has ever been claim ed for them by the Government or courts of the ; United States. 1 had then no suspicion, nor did Mr. Cramptou give me any cause to suspect, that ' j he was acting, or intended to act, upon an inter ’ pretation of that law which would justify the act of McDonald, which he then condemned, and make ■ that law but little better than a dead letter. I could not but suppose that he viewed it in the same light as Lord Clarendon did when he wrote - his despatch to Mr. Crampton of the 12th of April 1 thereafter, in which his lordship declared it to be , “not only very just, but very stringent.” ’ i To show that I was not mistaken in this respect, i 1 quote a passage from a letter of Mr. Crampton, e dated the 11th of March, to Sir G. le Marchant: e “ Any advance of money by her Majesty’s agents 1 or others in the United States would constitute an j : infraction of the neutrality law.” | The depositions which accompany this despatch made by some ot the same persons who have fur’ | pished the British government with affidavits to I impeach Strobe l and Hertz, prove conclusively | that Mr. Crampton did disburse various sums of ' money to agents employed in recruiting within the United States. 5 me : It was, indeed, apprehended bv me at that time | that violations of that law would ensue. It could ! not fail to be seen that anv organised scheme of a ; foreign government to draw recruits from the Uni ! ted States, though bv mere invitation, would ne j cessarily tend to, and result in, violations of the municipal law. So decided was my belief in this j respect, that measures bad already been taken bv jme in behalf of this government—as it happened upon the very day of the interview with Mr. Cramp ton—to institute prosecutions against persons en gaged in this business in New \ork and Philadel phia. 1 then notified Mr. Crampton of that fact as he expressly admits in the report of that inter view made to his government. An attempt was made to deduce an excuse for Mr. Crampton's course in the business of recruit ing in this country from the alleged fact that he communicated to me on that occasion the arrange ments which had been made for that purpose, and that I did not disapprove them otherwise than bv insisting upon the observance of the neutrality law of the United States. This allegation is hard ly consistent with Mr. Crampton’s own statement of what then passed. In the defence of his con duct recently sent by him to his government, he makes admissions inconsistent with the allegation tiiat there was no concealment on his part, and that the recruiting arrangements were communi cated to me. He says that “it is perfectly true that I did not enter Into any details of the means which were to he adopted by her Majesty’s govern ment to render available the services of’ those who tendered them to us in such numbers. There seemed to be obvious reasons for abstaining from this, even if it had occurred to me. I should have been unwilling to have done anything which might have borne the appearance of engaging Mr. Marcy in any expression of favor or approbation of a plan favoring the interests of one of the parties j in the present war! All I could desire on his part ; was neutrality and impartiality.” His reasons for withholding from me the details of the enlistment system—the most important part of it for this government—are not satisfactory. If Mr. Crampton believed what he was doing, or ] intended to do, in the way of recruiting was right, j he could have had no reluctance to communicate it to me, for his instructions required him to make that disclosure. < Acting in due frankness, and with a proper re gard for the dictates of international comitv, Mr. Crumpton should, it would seem, have disclosed to me all the measures intended to be pursued within the United States by the agents of his gov ernment, including himself, in exeution of the act of Parliament for raising the Foreign Legion. Nay, lie was expressly commanded bv his govern ment to practise no concealment with the Ameri can government on the subject. If lie had obey ed these orders, all misunderstanding between the two governments would have been prevented. Mr. Crumpton was the more imperativelv called upon to make full explanations on the subject, not only because be was commanded bv his govern ment to do so, but for the further reason that, im mediately after the breaking out of the war be tween Great Britain and France on the one hand, and Russia on the other, he had, bv an official note addressed to me, invoked the ' efforts of this government to enforce upon the inhabitants of the country, citizens or others, the necessity of observ ing the strictest neutrality towards thejbelligereut parties, and especially to enjoin upon them to ab stain from taking part in armaments for. the ser vice of Russia, or in “any other measure opposed to the duties of a strict neutrality.” To this ap plication the undersigned, by express direction of i the President, replied, declaring that the United | States, “while claiming the full enjoyment of their ! rights as a neutral power, will observe the strict- j est neutrality towards each and all the belliger- 1 ents.” Reference was made to the severe restrict- | lions imposed by law, not only upon citizens of the United Suites, hut upon all persons resident within its territory, prohibiting the “enlisting men therein for the purpose of taking a part in any foreign i war.” It was added “that the President did not j apprehend any attempt to violate the laws; hut. j should his just expectation in this respect he dis- j appointed, lie will not fail in his duty to use all the ! power with which he is invested to enforce ohedi- j cnce to them.” In view of this formal and solemn appeal by ] Mr. Crampton to the American government, and of the assurance he received of its determination j to maintain strict neutrality, it was not for a me- ! ment suspected that Mr. Crampton could misun derstand the purposes or believe that lie would he | permitted to set on foot and execute, for the peri- i od of five consecutive months, a systematic scheme j to obtain military recruits for the British service! in the United States. That Mr. Crampton (lid enter most deeply into | this scheme, is proved by the evidence already sub- j niitted to her Majesty’s government, but is still j more conclusively established by the additional ! proofs which accompany this despatch. Whatev- j ever detraction from the value of the testimony against Mr. Crampton may result from the attempt j to discredit Strobel and Hertz, is much more than | made up the additional proofs now adduced. This : body of strong cumulative evidence confirms the i I’resident's former conclusion as to the complici ty of Mr. Crampton and the British consuls at ! Now York, Philadelphia and Cincinnati in tln» il legal enterprise of recruiting soldiers for the j British army within the United States, and the j President does not doubt tiiul when this new evi- i deuce shall be brought under the consideration of j her Majesty's government, it will no longer dissent i from this conclusion. The gratification which the President feels at the | satisfactory settlement of the recruiting question, | in so far as respects the action of the British gov- j eminent itself, has induced him to examine the j rase again with a view to remove, if possible, from j his mind the personal objections against her Ma- | jesty’s Minister and Consuls. This examination has not produced that effect ; hut, on the contrary, has strengthened his conviction that the interests of both governments require that those persons should cease to hold their present official positions in the United States. lie sincerely regrets that her Majesty’s government liatvnot been able to ta l e the same view of the case, and to comply with his request for their recall; hut it lias not consented to do so. if, in the earnest desire to act with all possible j courtesy towards her Majesty’s government, the i President could have suspended his determination ! in the ease, in order to submit the new testimony, which he is confident would have been found so ffi-1 eient to induce compliance with his request for the recall of the British Minister, he is precluded from j anv such thought of delay by the exceptionable j character of despatches of that gentleman, copies ! of which having been recently laid before Parlia ment, have thus come to the knowledge of this : government, and which are of a tenor to render ! further intercourse between the two governments, i through that Minister, alike unpleasant and detri mental to their good understanding. The President has, therefore, been constrained, ! bv considerations of the best interests of both countries, reluctantly to have recourse to the only remaining means of moving without delay, these ; very unacceptable officers from the connection j they now have with this government. This course ! lias been deemed necessary on account of their I unfitness for the positions they hold, arising from i the very active part they have taken in getting up j and carrying out the system of recruiting, which 1 has been attended with numerous infractions of our j laws, which lias disturbed our internal tranquility, j and endangered ourpeaceful relations to a nation with which this government is most anxious to : maintain cordial friendship and intimate commer j cial and social intercourse. j lie has. therefore, determined to send to Mr. i Crampton, her Majesty’s diplomatic representa tive, his passport and to revoke the exequaturs of i Mr. Mathew, Mr. Barclay, and Mr. Rowcroft, the ! British Consuls at Philadelphia, New York and j Cincinnati. I am, sir, respectfully, vonr obedient servant, W. 1,. Marcy. j Grouch M. Dallas, Esq., &e„ Ac., Ac., London. Necre(i«ry Marcy’s Letter of Dismissal to Mr. Crampton. Washington - , May 30. —The following is the offi cial dismissal of Mr. Cramp ton, the British Minis ter : Department op State, > Washington, May ‘2B, 1856. t Sir: The President of the United States has di rected me to announce to you his determination to discontinue further intercourse with you as Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Representative to the govern i inent of the United States. The reasons which have compelled him to take this step at this time have been communicated to your government. I avail myself of this occasion to add that due ; attention will be cheerfully given to any communi cations addressed to this department from Her ■ Majesty’s government, affecting the relations be -1 tween Great Britain and the United States, which i may be forwarded to this government through anv I other channel. Should it be vour desire to retire from the Uni ted States, the President directs me to furnish you I with the usual facilities for that purpose. I con sequently enclose herewith the passport in such cases. 1 avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, sir, the assurance of my respectful considera tion. Wm. 1,. Marcia To John F. Crampton, Esq., Her Majesty’s Miu | ister, etc. Newport, May 30. —A caucus of the anti-admin istration members of the Legislature was held to day, when an informal ballot was had for a candi date for United States Senator. James F. Sim mons received 30, Thomas A. Jencks, 15; scatter ing 10. The caucus refused to proceed to a formal } ballot, and adjourned till evening. BY AUTHORITY. LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. [Public 3.J AN ACT to define the jurisdiction of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the district of East Tennessee. Be it enacted by the Senate and limine of Jtepre sentatives of the United States of America, in. Con gress assembled, That the jurisdiction of the Dis trict and Circuit Courts of the United States] for the eastern district of Tennessee, be, and the same is hereby declared to extend to and include the following counties of said State, to-wit: Anderson, Bledsoe, Blount, Bradley, Campbell, Carten, Clai borne, Cocke, Granger, Greene, Hawkins, Hamil ton, Hancock, Jefferson, Johnson, Knox, McMinn* Meiggs, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Polk, Rhea’ Roane, Sevier, Scott, Sullivan, Wasliington, Union’ and. Cumberland, and any county which may hereafter be formed out of the|Territory, one or more of said counties shall be included in said jurisdic tion. Approved March 19, 1856. COMMERCIAL. STOCK OF COTTON On hand in Augusta and Hamburg, May 31. In Augusta 12,482 “ Hamburg 1,007 SHIPMENTS OF COTTON To Charleston and Savannah, in May, 1856. To Charleston, by Railroad 4,000 “ from Hamburg 1,916 Savannah, by Railroad 36 by Fashion Line 1,370 by Iron Steamboat line 1,984 , „ 0,300 i hrough Cotton to Charleston 3,983 TOTAL RECEIPTS. Stock on hand, May 31, 1556 18,489 Shipped in May.. 9*306 22.795 Deduct stock on hand, May 1, 1856 22,114 Receipts in May, 1856 6SI Received previously 202 701 Total receipts 203,382 Through Cottons from Sept. 1, to May 31.. 57,761 CHARLESTON, Mav 31. — Cotton. —The transac tions of the day were limited to 652 hales, at ex tremes ranging from 9V to 11 cents, principally at 10, 10X@11 cents; prices ruling in favor of buy ers, without any quotable change. SAVANNAH, June \.—CoCton. —There is very little doing in this article. The market is still de clining. The sales on yesterday were 106 bales viz; 6at 10 cents, and 100 at 10 % cents. SAVANNAH EXPORTS—JUNE 1. Per steamship Alabama, for New York—4Bo bales Cotton, 94 do. S. I. do., 58 casks rice, 10 hales domestics, 17 hags cotton seed, and sundry pkgs mdze. Per schr James Rose, for West Indies—so casks rice, 50 half do. do., 4 bbls. hams, 9,000 feet lum ber, 30,000 shingles, 40 bbls. beef, 50 kegs lard, 1 hhd. tobacco, 25 sacks corn meal. SHI PPING NEWS. ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON. I Steamship Southerner, Ewan, New York j Ship Pepperill, Jordan, Liverpool Ship New York, Edwards, Havre i Ship Lyra, Cheover, Havre i i' r barque Charlotte Harrison, Welch, Liverpool Barque Avola, Kendrick, Havre Barque E Wright, Jr, MeXear, Rotterdam Barque Savannah, Burke, Falmouth Brig Jas Gray, Plainer, Antwerp Schr Col Satterly, Stetson, New York SAILED FOR OH \RLESTOX. Ship Amelia, McKenzie, Bremerhaven Barque Golden Rule, Nickerson, Boston CHARLESTON, June 2. Arrived, steamships Marion, New York ; Parker Vein, Baltimore; hark j l.tiwan, Philadelphia ; barques Virginia Ann, Bos ton ; Carolina, X. 1 ork ; Tern Nameaug, Boston; Ketch Brothers, Ctenfnegos ; sehrs Fairfield, New York; Moonlight, do.; (ieo Millard, Boston; 11 1’ Stoney, New York. Went to sea, steamships Nashville, New York; State of Georgia, Philadelphia. SAVANNAH, June I.—Arrived, ship Cordelia, , New York. | Sailed, steamship Alabama, New York. BLINDS, DOORS AND SASH GLAZED. | ADE of Northern White Pine -strong, light ! and cheap. J. DANFORTH. j ap2s djtcfim BY HOWARD & DUGAS. G. A. PARKER, Auctioneer. Executor# Sale. be sold in front of the office of the ! ww Augusta Insurance and Banking Com-! J puny, m the city of Augusta, on Wednesday, the 4th day ol JINK next, and ii necessary, from day to day thereafter, during t’e.e usual hours ot puh j he sales, the following property, part of the estate j | of Thomas Cumming, decease'll, to wit: Four unimproved hots on the North sid of Rev j nold street, just below Washington street, each j : having a front of about forty-one and a half ill 1 ..) feet on Reynold street, running bark about one j hundred and seventy-seven and a half 177> feet to an alley about twenty (2i>) feetwide, on which j each of them lias a front of about shirt v-nine and '• a half (39;.*) feet, with the right of wav through ! said alley, in common with three lots ii ■ A men- | tioued, and also through the alleys lying respec tively on the east and west of the same lots. Also, the three unimproved Lots above referred j to, bounded north by Bay street, on which each of them has a front of about forty-two feet four inches, extending hack one hundred and seventy-seven and a half (177 h;) feet to the alley above mention- I ed, by which they are hounded on the south, with ! j the right of way in common with the four lots i : above deseribed, through the three alleys uiention i ed in the description of said lots. The said seven lots (four on Reynold and three on Bay streets). I and the alleys therewith connected, occupy the ’ | ground known as the old Eagle Tavern Lot. Also, two lots of Land in the village of Stmt- ] merville, of which one, fronting on Milledge street on the east, and Cumming street on the south, con tains about six 16) acres; and the other fronting j on Cumming street, adjoining the last mentioned i ou the east, and Mr. Jesse Anslev on the west, con : uins four acres, more or less. Also, about forty lots, suitable for buildings, laid out on a tract of land adjoining, on the West, tlie j village of Summerville ; bounded South, in part, i by the Summerville Plank road, in part by a road i running between said tract and the United States i Arsenal grounds, and lands of Mr. William Robin- : son and others ; West by a road about seventy feet wide, at right angles to the last mentioned; and . North bv a roadway thirty-three feet wide, separa ting it from lands of Messrs. Fitten, McKee, Ans- i ley, and others. The U. S. Arsenal, opposite the eastern portion of the lots is about two . miles from the western boundary of the city of Augusta, and the road dividing them from the ! Government land is, opposite the Arsenal build- '' itigs, about three hundred feet higher than the Citv : : Hall lot. ' | . j A plan of these lots mav he seen at the Post j ' ; Office and at the oflice of H. 11. Cumming, in Law j . j Range. [ j Also, a tract of Pine Land containing about j ! Fifty Acres, commonly called the “ Quarry j Tract,” on which is a valuable quarry of White j Free Stone. ! Terms of sale—One third cash, the other two thirds in two equal annual instalments, with inter • est from day of sale, secured hv mortgage of the 1 property sold. The Executors, while offering the property - '■ and the Lots above designated, may, previous to - : the sale, for the interest of the Estate or the con venience of purchasers, make some change in the j parcels offered, by throwing together portions now ’ separated subdividing others now offered entire, ! - or modifying the subdivisions above mentioned, j i : Distinct plans of the Lots, as offered, will he i r prepared and ready for examination before and at i - j time of sale. i Those who may examine the four lots on Rev- ! .■ nold street above advertised, will observe that a j portion of the side walk in front of them is now e ! occupied by a track of tlie South Carolina Ratl - road. The" Executors hereby give notice that this r encroachment was made without anv admitted au - ; thority; without the consent of either of the Exe i j enters then representing the estate, and under the v formal written protest of one of them, now spread upon the minutes of the City Council of Augusta, - to which all interested are referred. To the pur u chasers will be transferred, with the property, all i- the right of the present owners to require the ro ll rnoval of this nuisance. WILLIAM CUMMING, 0 1 HENRY H. CUMMING, L . ' Acting Executors of the will of Thomas Gumming, deed, i- * Augusta, March 25, 1856. tu&ftd mh2s -m A/Wk PCS. very superior MOSQUITO m 1 rl PI W NETTING, just received, and for gale cheap, at GRAY BROTHERS’ i mySO d+*c Cheap Cash Store. !- w \\V REXCEVILLE FACTORY OSXA r- mJ BURGS. STRIPES, YARN'S, on hand, and il 1 for sale bv GIRARDEY, WIIYTE & CO., j my* Sole Agent*. lotteries. $60,000! The first Havana Plan lottery established in the - United States. [by AUTHORITY Os TUB STATE OE ALABAMA.] Southern Military Academy Lottery!! CLASS D—NEW SERIES. : To be drawn in the City of Montgomery, JUNE ' 12th, 1856. ONLY 10,000 NUMBERS! CAPITAL PRIZE $15,000! ~r . PRICE OF TICKETS : Wholes $lO ; Halves $5 ; Quarters $2.50. Prizes in this Lottery are paid thirty days after the drawing, in bills of specie-paving Banks, with out deduction-only on presentation of the Tickets drawing the Prize. 23T* Bills of all solvent Banks taken at par. All communications strictly confidential. Address SAM’L. SWAN, Agent and Manager jeO Box 70, Augusta, Ga. GREENE ANI) PULASKI MONUMENT LOTTERIES. Managed, drawn, and Prizes paid by the well known and responsible firm of GREGORY & MAURY. CLASS 133, at Savannah, on Tuesday, June D. PACKAGE SCHEME. $4,500! $1,500; SI,OOO ; $853, &c. Tickets $1 —Shares in proportion. Risk on a package of 25 quarters $3.70. *+* EXTRA 17, bv Delaware 124, on Saturday,' June 7. GRAND SCHEME. $40,000! $20,000; $10,000; $6,000; $5,000; $4,000; $3,255; 20 Prizes of SI,OOO, &c. Tickets slo—Shares in proportion. JOHN A. MILLEN, Agent, On Jackson street, near the Globe Hotel. All orders from the city or country strictly con fidential. * " ‘ jel GEORGIA LOTTERY! AUTHORIZED by the STATE OF GEORGIA. Fort Gaines Academy Lottery. CLASS 16, To bo drawn in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, in public, on THURSDAV, June 26, 1856, on the HA VAN A PLAN! SAM’L. SWAN A CO., Manager. Prizes amounting to 34,000 DOLLARS! Will be distributed according to the following BRILLIANT SCHEME! 10,000 NUMBERS!— 249 PRIZES!! SCHEME: 1 Prize of SIO,OOO is SIO,OOO 1 “ .' 5,000 is 5,000 1 “ 3,000 is 3,000 1 “ 1,000 is 1,000 1 “ 1,000 is 1,000 5 Prizes of 500 are 2,500 10 “ 200 arc 2,000 25 “ 100 are 2,500 So “ 50 are 4,000 44 “ 30 are 1,320 4 “ S6O approximating to SIO,OOO prize, 240 4 “ 50 “ to 5,000 “ 200 4 “ 40 “ to 8,000 “ 160 8 “ 35 “ to 1,000 prizes, 280 20 “ 20 “ to 500 “ 400 40 “ 10 “ to 200 “ 400 240 Prizes, amounting to $34 000 APPROXIMATION PRIZES. The two preceding and the two following num bers to those drawing the first 20 Prizes, are enti tled to the 80 Approximation Prizes, in the usual manner. J-JO” Remember that every Prize is drawn, and payable in full without deduction. ZEE All Prizes of SI,OOO and under paid imme diately after the drawing—other Prizes at the usual time of thirty days. All communications strictly confidential. The drawn numbers will bo forwarded to purchasers immediately after the drawing. 11 hole Tickets s•> ,* Halves $2.50 ,* Quarters $1.25. Prize Tickets cashed or renewed in other tickets at either office. Orders for Tickets can be addressed either to S. SWAN A CO., Atlanta, Ga., jel or F. C. BARBER, Augusta, Ga. ALABAMA LOTTERY! .1 / THORIZED by th, sr. ITE OF . 11. AR. 11[. 1. ... Southern Military Academy Lottery ! CLASS E—NEW SERIES. To be drawn in the City of Montgomery, Alabama, ' in public, on THURSDAY, July 10, 1856, on ihe I HAVANA PLAN! SAMUEL SWAN, Manager. Prizes amounting to $205,000 DOLLARS! Will be distributed according to the follow ini' MAGNIFICENT SCHEME! 30,000 NUMBERS! —ls,fiiid PRIZE'- 1 Prize of $35,000 is $35,606 1 “ 10,000 is 10,000 1 “ 5,060 is 5,006 1 “ 2,000 is 2,000 I 1 “ 1,200 is 1,200 | 1 “ 1,106 is 1,100 | 1 “ 1,000 is 1,000 I 1 “ 000 is Stoo | 1 “ 800 is 800 1 “ 620 is 620 I 10 “ 200 is 2,000 i 100 “ 100 is 10,000 ! 4 “ $2".i approximating $35,000 prize, ssoo j 4 “ 150 “ 10,000 “ 600 i 4 “ 100 “ 5,000 “ 406 4 “ 80 “ 2,000 “ 320 j 4 “ 70 “ 1,200 “ 280 i 4 “ 50 “ 1,100 “ 200 | 4 “ 40 “ 1,000 “ 160 i 4 “ 30 - 066 “ 120 : 4 “ 28 “ s,„, “ n 2 4 “ 22 “ 620 “ 88 I 40 “ 2o “ 266 “ 860 j 466 “ 111 “ 100 “ 4,666 ; 15,600 “ S },.< ...127,500 15,600 Prizes, amounting to $205 000 I The 15,000 Prizes of sß4* are determined by the ! number which draws the $35,600 Prize if that number should be an odd number, then every odd ! number ticket in the Scheme will bo entitled to $8.50; if an even number, then every even number ticket will he entitled to $8.50 in addition to anv other Prize which may be drawn. Purchasers in buying an equal quantity of odd and even number tickets w ill be certain of drawing nearly one-half the cost of the same, with chances of obtaining other Prizes. Remember that every Prize is drawn, and payable in full without deduction. I-e' All Prizes ot SI,OOO and under, paid imme diately after the drawing—other Prizes at the usual time of thirty days. All communications strictly confidential. The drawn numbers will he forwarded to purchasers j immediately after the drawing. I Vhole Tickets slo ; Halves $5 ; Quarte rs $2.50.1 Prize Tickets cashed or renewed in other tickets ; ! at either office. I Orders for Tickets can bo addressed either to S. SWAN, Montgomery, Ala., | jel orßox7o, Augusta, Ga. REAL HAVANA LOTTERY. 210,000 DOLLARS! jsORTEO NUMERO 563 ORDINARIO. The Ordinary Drawing of the HAVANA LOT ; TERY, conducted by the Spanish Government, on the Island of Cuba, under the supervision of the I Captain General, will take place at Havana on Monday, June 16th, 1856. Capital Prize $60,000. j 1 Prize of. $60,000 15 Prizes of. $1,600 I 1 “ 20,000 20 “ *" 500 i 1 “ 16,000 60 “ 400 j 1 “ 8,000 161 “ 200 i 10 Prizes of 2,000 16 Approximations.4,Boo M hole Tickets $lO ; Halves $5 ; Quarters $2.50. | Prizes paid at the Havana Office on presentation. Prizes cashed by the undersigned at five per cent. | discount. All orders sent to the undersigned strictly confi dential, and will be attended to with dispatch, i Address JOHN E. NELSON, Box 130, ; my2s Charleston, S. C. DOTTED SWISSES. opening, a new and beautiful assortment ' 1M! of Dotted and Figured SWISSES, JACONET | and SWISS MUSLINS, at exceedingly low prices. | Also, a very fine variety of Long and Short Lace MITTS, with and without fingers, at prices from j 37}-£ cents to $1.75 a pair, at j mv26 DICKEY k PHIBBS’. J OWLS.—Several casks JOWLS in store, and for sale by THOS. P. STOVALL &CO | my3Q 4 Ruction Bales/ BY GIRAR DEY. WHYTE & CO. A Pine Negro fellow at Auction. THIS I)A\ (Tuesday), at the Lower Market House within the usual hours of sale, will be sold- ’ Joe, a firs rate field hand, only 23 years old. 6 feet high, and will weigh from 170 to 1 80 pounds. Warranted sound, litles indisputable Terms caßh - ' je3_ BY GIRARDEY. WHYTE & CO. THIS DAY (Tuesday), at the Lower Market House, will be sold— That one storv Wood Building, on Campbell-st., immediately in the rear of Baker & Carswell’s store. Said building is forty feet wide by twenty deep, and to be removed from the premises by the 10th inst. Terms cash. j'e3 BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. WEDNESDAY, 4th inst., in front of store, at lfihf o’clock, will he sold— A general assortment of Groceries, Provisions, Dry Goods, Ready-made Clothing, Cutlery, Sad dlery, Crockery and Glassware, Ac. Terms cash, jel " BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. fl LSDA\ , 8d inst., at the Lower Market House, will be sold— Foui good \\ oik Horses sound and in good or der. Terms cash. j el BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. Ready-made Clothing at private sale until Wedr.ts day, which, if not closed out then, unit lie sold out at auction. The following attractive invoice of Ready-made ; CLOTHING will bo opened on Monday, and of. j sered at private sale until Wednesday. The Clothing are all seasonable, and fresh from the manufacturers. 16 dozen Duck Coats. 15 “ Linen “ 14 “ “ “ 14 “ Union Linen Coats. 11 “ White “ 11 “ Linen Duck “ 13 “ Printed Cotton “ 12 “ Worsted “ 12 “ Fancy Cassimere Coats. 12 “ Habit Cloth “ 12 “ Gray Linen Drill “ , 13 “ Fancy Cotton Pants. 12 “ Linen Drill “ 12 “ Black Drab d’Ete Pants. 13 “ Fancy Marseilles “ 16 “ “ “ Vests 13 « « « U 12 “ “ Cottonade “ 12 “ “ Marseilles “ 10 <* o 16 “ “ White “ Merchants and dealers are invited to call and see the collection. Prices low. Terms cash. jel GIRARDEY, WHYTE A CO. BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. "MM7ILL UJE SOLI), in front of the office of ww the Augusta Insurance, and Banking Com pany, on WEDNESDAY, the 4th day of JUNE isnt, the following improved real estate, viz : > The three-story brick store and dwelling, sit«- ! ated on the North side of Broad street, occupying i a trout of 30 feet on Broad street, extending to , Jones street, being the second building above i | Campbell street; the store occupied by Mrs. Flo i rence as a drygoods store and the dwelling by Mrs. Gordon. This building is well built, anil in complete order, and rents for nine hundred dol lars for the present year. Also, the two-story dwelling of wood, being the lower tenement of the buildings known as Quality Range, at present oc cupied by Mr. Guess, lot fronting on Broad street 20 35 feet, and Jones street 20 feet. Sale to take place after the sale of other proper ty, to be sold-same day and place. Bv order of the Board. ‘ ROBERT WALTON, my3l Cashier. BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. Executrix Sale. On the first TUESDAY in June next, before the Lower Market House, in the city of Augusta, will be sold, under an order from the Ordinary of Richmond county, four Negroes —Hosannah, Sa rah, Rachel and Amelia. Sold as the property of the late Robert F. Poe, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors. Terms cash, my 15 di-c ELIZA P. POE, Executrix. BY GIRARDEY, WHYTE & CO. Administrator’s Side-. *** | On the first Tuesday in JUNE next, pursuant loan Older of the Court of Ordinan of Richmond County, will be sold, at the Lower Market House in the City of Augusta and County aforesaid, within the usual hours of sale, the following pro perty, belonging to the estate of Marie Ann Gi j rardev, deceased - , to wit: All that lot, or parcel of land, with the improve ments thereon, lying and being on the South side of Broad-street, between Washington and Centre streets, in the City of Augusta and County afore said, containing a front on Broad-street of forte seven feet, more or less, and extending through of that width, to Ellis-street—bounded on the North by Broad-street, South by Ellis-street, East by a lot formerly Nicholas Del.aigle’s, and West by "Jo seph Bignon’s lot. Also, all the right, title and interest of the said I Marie Ann in the following Negro Slave', to nit i Ursula, about thirty-eight, and Vincent, about 1 twenty-six years old. Also, on the same day, at the store of I. P. Gi j rardv, all the right, title and interest of the said I Marie Ann in the stock in trade,furniture, fixtures, and assets of the late firm of 1. P. Girardei A Co. Terms on the dav of sale. CAMILLE E. GIRARDEY. Adm’r : apL' td NOTICE. Tim: firm of CONNOR A RIVIERE m the Livery Stable business is this dav dissolved !by mutual "consent. The Books and Notes can he found at the office of E. Coxxoit at all times. All persons indebted to us, either bv note or account are requested to call and settle‘immediately with j either of the undersigned, or Wm. <). II u.c. Mr. E. CONNOR will continue the same business at the old stand. Thankful for former patronage, | he still solicits from his friends and the public geu : erally, a continuance of the same. ELIJAH CONNOR, ! JOHN K. RIVIERE. \\ arrentou, Ga., Mav 12th, 1556. i m y-° ' tlm Grand speculation for a small investment I’JOO PRIZES ! 60,000 DOLLARS ! Improvement on the approved HAVANA PLAN LOTTERY! JASPER COUNTY ACADEMY LOTTER V. [by authority of the state of ceohuia.j 16,000 NUAIBKRS ONLY! ONE PRIZE TO EVER V EIGHT TICKETS ! CLASS ,\” j TO BE DRAWN JUNE 16th, 1856, at Concert I Hall, Macon, Ga., under the sworn superintend ; ence of Col. Geo. M. Logan and J. A. Nesbit, Esq. i This Lottery is drawn on the plan of the Royal Lottery ot Havana of Single Numbers; this has ; only 16,000 Numbers, and the Havana Lottery I 34,000 Numbers—the Havana 249 Prizes -this 1200 PRIZES. Look to yobr interest! Now is the time 1 CAPITAL 15,000 DOLLARS 1 Pnze of $15,000 1 5,000 u 4,000 } 3,000 * 2,000 o Prizes of ] nmi 10 “ $506 are. . 5,000 “ 50 are... 3,00e 120 “ 25 are... 500 Approximation Prizes of.. 20 are.. . 10,000 500 “ “ 16 me... 5,600 1200 Prizes, amounting to $60,000 Tickets $10; Halves $5; Quarters $2.56. 1 Prizes Payable without deduction! Persons send -1 ing money by mail need not fear its being lost. 1 j Orders punctually attended to. Communications 1 j confidential. Bank Notes of sound Banks taken at c par. Drawings sent to all ordering Tickets. Those wishing particular Numbers should aider imrner diately. Address JAMES F’. WINTER, myil Box 98, Augusta, Ga. HAY. “i BALES prime Northern HAV, just -■ received and for sale low l,v myll ts DYE A BARNES. STRAYED. ! the enclosure, last Friday nighi, of F. j Holman, three or four miles from Augusta, ; ! near the Georgia railroad, a sorrel Mare MULE, - | three or four years old. A liberal reward will be 1 I paid for her delivery to HOLMAN X CURTIS. J Augusta, Aprilßo,lßs6. it ap3o 1 ’■BUTTER. 10 tabs May BUTTER, jn-t a: i ■» rived, and for sale by | IIIV 3o 4 TUOtf. P. STOVALL k CO.