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THE CONST ITI ; TIOMLIST.
BY JAMES GARDNER'
OFFICE OX McIXTOSH-STREET,
THIRD DOOR FROM THE NORTH-WEST CORNER
OF BROAD-STREET.
TERMS: 1
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Weeklv, in advance per annum 2 00
Discount for Coras.
OUR J O ZB 99 OFFICE.
Having recently added a variety of New Sfcries
of TYPE to our Job Department, we are prepared
to execute every description of
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In a superior manner, and on reasonable terms.
Among the assortment are some Mammoth Ttpe
for POSTERS.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 1856.
The Georgia* Citizen.
This paper has recently donned a new dress, and
is one of the best edited and printed papers in the
State. It is published in Macon, by Dr. L. F. W.
Andrews, at $2.50 per annum in advance. It is,
in politics, an independent journal.
Small Spanish Coin.
Mr. Hunter's bill, in Congress, is intended to
relieve the country of ail the Spanish fractional
parts of a dollar now in circulation. Ail of this
currency, so uncertain as to its real value, will be
substituted by small coins of United States money.
- Why Is It?—We see that Macon money is quo
ted in the Augusta papers at two per cent, dis
count. This is doing great injustice to our Bank
ing institutions, which are as solvent and as pru
dently conducted as any Banks in the State or out
of it. We suppose we nave to thank the Chronicle
tk Sentinel for this discredit of our money market,
as that press has, for a long time, been trying to
create the impression that Wild-Cat-ism prevails
here, to a deplorable extent. — Georgia Citizen.
Macon money is quoted, in this paper, in the
same way that we quote the price of Tennessee
Bacon, and that is, for just what it is selling at.
It is regarded by many persons here as uncurrent
money ; and, consequently, some little discount
has to be submitted to by holders, in order to
realize current funds. Macon money is bought up
by the Brokers, just exactly as small grocers buy
bacon from wholesale dealers, at a low enough
price to make a profit on the purchase.
So far as we are concerned, we have no prejudice
against Macon money, and it is a matter of indif
ference to us whether we quote it at a discount,
lat par, or at a premium, provided we quote it at
its current rates of sale.
If the Banks in Macon “arc as solvent and as
Prudently conducted as any Banks in the State or
Lt of it,” it would seem reasonable to presume
Rat they would keep their bills as current at Au
gusta and other places in the State, as the Augus
ta Bank bills are kept in Macon, and at other
points. “Solvent and prudently conducted” Banks
can always do so if they feel disposed.
News by the Africa.
The late foreign intelligence to be found under
our telegraphic head, reports an advance in Cot
ton, which must have reference to the grades be
low the middling qualities, or the quotations we
have received are not correct. Fair uplands was
quoted, by the arrivals from Liverpool of March
22d, 29th, April 2d and sth at and the last
two arrivals have reported middling uplands at
5Kd.
Large quantities of very inferior Cotton were
forced upon the Liverpool market in March, which
caused prices to very materially decline there, and
we presume the improvements since have been
mostly on such qualities. In looking over the mar
kets since the 22d March, we find but an eighth im
provement in fair Orleans.
We learn that some sales in Liverpool have been
reported to parties in this city, at one-sixteenth
higher than the quotations furnished by the steam
er. This is not unusual, even in markets in our
own c#intry. Prices depend upon classifications
in a great measure, and ujwm demand. A fraction
higher may be paid in the morning than afternoon,
or the reverse may be the case.
CoJ. Sclile»Miiger.
This gentleman, who was in command of a
portiou of the forces of the Nicaragua army, num
bering about four hundred men, and who is report
ed to have recently met with so unfortunate a re
pulse near San Juan, is a Hungarian by birth, and
was associated with Kossuth, in the war in his ua
tive country. The misfortunes which attended the
revolution in Hungary, compelled Col. Schleshin
- ger to emigrate to this country. Subsequently, he
engaged in the Lopez expedition against Cuba, and
was there taken prisoner and sent to Spain, but
finally pardoned.
A Telegraphic dispatch of 16th inst. states, that
the Agent of the Nicaragua government in New
Orleans, has published a card in which he denoun- j
ces the story of Col. Schlkssingrr’s defeat as a j
falsehood, and says that an account had'been re
la oeived at head-quarters that Col. Schlessinger had
two hundred and fifty men attacked by nearly
1- Hkee thousand Costa Rican*, when they retreated
niui.b*-.- • ■: ' i. :!o It.r .
a.-;.;:' • - : \..
under the comm »;:<*; : »>• a,>•.>-; %«.
the presumption of the def-at of the inti or.
of the battle was brought to Pana
ma, by the Dutch steamer, Emilie, from San Jose,
near which place the battle is reported to have
been fought on the 20th of March. The Aspinwall
Courier, of the sth April, credits the report.
The next arrival from Central America will be
anxiously looked for, not only for confirmation or
denial of this report of the defeat of Gen. Walk
er’s forces, but for the news of the subsequent
movements of the contending armies.
Hon-. John P. Kennedy.
This gentleman has recently been making a
southern tour, and while it is very likely he was
on business entirely disconnected with politics, we
notice that where he has been and where he has
talked, some little signs are exhibited of bis de
votion to bis old friend Mr. Fillmore.
The Wilmington Herald, in giving a sketch of
the proceedings of the convention of the Ameri
can party of North Carolina, held at Greensboro’
last week, says:
"J. H. Haughton, T3sq., addressed the Conven
tion, stating that in a conversation he had with
the Hon. John P. Kennedv thatmoruing, that gen
tleman had assured him that Mr. Fillmore would
accept the nomination of the party for President.
Mr. Kennedy is one of the confidential friends of
Mr. Fillmore, is believed to be authorized to speak
for him, and therefore this statement may be con
sidered as settling the question as regards his ac
ceptance or declination of the nomination. Mr.
Kennedy happened to pass through Greensboro’
on Thursday on fiis way to Columbia.
Our friends of the Savanfiah Republican doubt
less had a visit from Mr. Kennedy, and that paper
will now sustain Mr. Fillmore, without special re
gard to party. This may be the new move on the
chessboard of the Know Nothing Order.
Resignation of an Army Officer.—The resig
nation of Second Lieut. John S. Bowen, regiment
of mounted riflemen, has been accepted by the
President, to take effect May 1, 1856. Lieut. B. has
returned to Savannah, the place of his nativity, to
reside permanently.
■
Examine the two Platform-..
We ask the reader’s attention to the following
comparison of the platforms adopted by the Ohio
Democracy and by the Know Nothings of that
State in their respective State Conventions:
democratic resolutions, k. nothing resolution.
Rewired, That the Con- 4. Slavery is local,
stitution of the United not national. We op-
States imbodies the no- pose it* extension into any
blest and wisest system of me territories, and the
of free government ever increase of its political
established by patriotic power , by the admission
of any slave State or oth.
Resolved, That as De- erwise ; and we demand
mocrats we will stand of the general govern
by that Co n stitution, ment an immediate re
with all its compromis- dress of the great wrongs
es, and maintain the which haveheen inflict
union of the States a- ed upon the cause offree
gainst the opposition of dom and the American
all traitors , from whatev- character by the repeal of
er source they may come, the Missouri Compromise
Resolved, That in the and the introduction of
principles of the Kansas- slavery in to Kansas in vi-
Nebraska bill, we recog- elation of law , by the force
nise, as they do, the qf arms , and the destruc
right of the people of the J tion of the elective fran-
Statesand Territories to chise.
form their own domestic
government , in accord
anee with the Constitu
tion, and are just, proper,
and Democratic.
A Dusty Time.
We are sustaining, with the best philosophy we
can summon to our aid, a weary and grumbling
pilgrimage through the dusty term. From eight
o’clock, A. M., until about the same hour, P. M.,
Broad street presents clouds of dust, which we
have seldom seen surpassed in a calm time. The
migratory particles cause no little annoyance to
tidy housekeepers, as well as to pedestrians—the
merchants are out of temper, the ladies complain,
and all classes, ages, sexes and conditions, are
“ waiting for a rain to dust out.”
We are consoled by the gentleman who watches
the “ dry and wet bulb” for the Smithsonian In
stitute, to look out for a change of weather, rain,
Ac., and the next day the dust rises higher and the
air is additionally charged with the wandering
dust.
At this time draymen urge their horses, at a lit
tle higher speed, to get out of the dust—“fast hor
ses” are allowed to “go”—and pacing horses “scat
ter the dust” beneath their feet, and leave clouds
of it in their wake.
Some of our citizens think that the City Council
ought to suppress the dust, by some peculiarly
shaped ordinance, but the annoyance of dust is
one of those evils or inconveniences which cannot
very readily be abated by a resolution or ordinance
of the City Council, unless the piety of the Board
should be exercised in offering prayers for rain.
Their efforts might be answered with a few season
able showers, and if it availed nothing, it is not
likely our Board of Aldermen would suffer much
by well directed devotional exercises.
Lunatic Asylum—Laying of the Corner
Stone.
From the following notice, says the Federal
Union , it will be seen that the interesting exercises
of laying the Corner Stone of the Main Structure
of the Lunatic Asylum will take place on the 6th
of May next:
State Lunatic Asylum, )
Near Milledgeville, April 19,1856. f
On Tuesday, the Oth day of Mav next, the Cor
ner Stone of the Main Structure of this Institution
will be laid by R. \V. Deputy G. M. William S.
Rockwell, with appropriate Masonic ceremonies,
and an address suitable to the occasion delivered
by M. E. William T. Gould, G. H. P. The Mason
ic fraternity generally, and the citizens of Milledge
ville and Midway are respectfully invited to attend.
The order of the exercises and ceremonies will be
published next week. Thos. F. Green, Sup’t., Ac.
Z-tfU The Journals of both branches of the last
Legislature of Georgia have been printed, and will
soon be ready for delivery. The I jaws will be
ready about the Ist of June. This is a decided
improvement upon former years.
Slight frosts were seen on Monday morning
from Milledgeville to Columbus.
The Bank of the State of Georgia has de
clared a semi-annual dividend of seven per cent*.
The Atlanta Intelligencer says: “ The Bank of
Fulton is expected to be in operation early in May.
J. B. Peck, Esq., is spoken of as likely to receive
the appointment of Cashier. A more worthy, ca
pable and popular man for the post could not be
found in our. city.”
J. R. Valentine, Esq., recently Cashier of the
Atlanta Bank, has removed to LaGrange, to take
charge of the Cashiership of the LaGrange Bank.
Death of a Naval Officer.— Commander Geo.
Adams, of the United States Navy, died at his res
idence in Baltimore on the 19th inst.
The last letters from Constantinople state that
the Sultan has authorized the publication of a
newspaper in the Arabic language, for circulation
amongst the inhabitants of Syria, Egypt, and
other parts of his Empire in which Arabic is spo
ken. This journal, which is to bear the title of
i Mirat ul Ahoal, (the Mirror of the People), is to
| appear once a week.
—
The Louisville Courier says that speculators in corn
in the Wabash country have sustained great losses
the present season. Forty and forty-three cents
have been paid for corn, and it is now selling for
twenty-five cents. The crop is unusually large,
and unless there should be an extra demand, of
which there is no prospect, it must go down still
more.
The cholera is very prevalent in Pernambuco,
and over two thousand two hundred persons have
died. The Brazilian steamer Marquis de Chinda
was recently lost near Goriana, not far from where
the ship Shooting Star went ashore. She was a
, new iron steamer on her first voyage, and was built
. in England. She is supposed to be insured for
£30,000 sterling.
t
Costly Inkstand.—The Plenipotentiaries, in
signing the treaty of peace, in Paris, made use of
a silver gilt inkstand specially ordered for the co-
L casion. The inkstand is decorated in the style of
5 the first empire, and cost not lest than ll,ooof.
Trieste advices state that many of the Japanese
* perished in the late earthquake at Jeddo. The Em
peror was saved.
f Judge Owen H. Krnon, a prominent citizen of
- Upper Georgia, died suddenly at his residence in
’ Dalton, on the 16th inst.
Murder and Suicide.—The Pickens Courier , of
i the 12th inst., states that Mr. Kuthman, near Wal
- hall i, after shooting a negro woman belonging to
1 Mr. Riley, committed suicide.
f •
c Resuscitation from Apparent Death.—The
- Rockport Register gives the particulars of a sin
gular case of resuscitation after supposed death,
; in that city :
A child had, to all appearances, died, and was
laid out in its little wiuding sheet upon a board in
an upper room, while the other preparations were
p & oi pg forward for the funeral. The sexton was
- notified and the grave dug. Some lime after the
t father went into the room where the child was,
and was astonished at its calling him by name, and
complaining that it did not lie good. Os course
the little sufferer was supplied with a better bed at
once. It had evidently fallen into a trance, from
t which it was awakened by a hard bed and cold
air.
* American silver half and quarter dollars, by
' edict, are henceforth to be worth only forty and
twenty cents on the island of Cuba.
The Sandersville Central Georgian of 18th
- ult, noticing the fatal rencounter, says : “An un
> fortunate difficulty transpired on Tuesday morning
last, at the carriage shop of Messrs.*!!- B. A B. K.
Gardner, in this place, between those two gentle
men, and Messrs. 0. J. Powell and John H. Sann
; ders, which resulted in the death of Mr. B. R.
r Gardner, Mr. H. B. Gardner was also wounded
severely in the shoulder with a knife; and we are
l informed that Mr. 0. J. Powell received a severe
wound on the head. Mr. B. R. Gardner was shot
i through the heart and expired instantly. He was
long a resident of this place, but removed to Mil
ledgeVille about a year ago, where his family now
1 resides.
2r§T* Arrangements are making to give the Hon.
c J AMES Buchanan a handsome reception, on his ar
rival at New York, in the Anjgo, which sailed
r from Liverpool on the 9th April. He will be met
* at the wharf by a committee of the Democratic
Young Men’s Association, and escorted to the Me
tropolitan Hotel, where he will receive his friends
for a couple of days. Subsequently he will be in
vited to partake of a public banquet.
The trial of Mrs. Wakemax, Miss Hersey,
and others, for murder, at Hartford, Conn., has
resulted in their acquittal, in consequence of the
insanity of the persons criminated.
r ZeST* On the 20th inst., two fires occurred in
[ Charleston. A kitchen attached to the premises
of John Carberry, in Elizabeth street—loss tri
. fling. At night, a building in the rear of Mr.
, Taxluxson, an upholsterer, near Horlbecks’ ally
> caught fire and was consumed, as well as a few
, other small houses.
’ Ze& n Edwin Hazard, aged about sixteen years,
and son of Dr. T. F. Hazard, of Glynn county,
accidently shot himself by playing with a loaded
gun last week.
The Cholera aud Isthmus Fever are pre
? vailing, with fatal results, in of Central
' America. m i
Jsgr“The Democratic Convention of California
. have appointed Buchanan delegates to the Cin
. cinnati Convention.
John F. Adair, a venerable and much res
pected citizen in Atlanta, died in that eftv on the
16th inst.
ZjtT' Mr. J. T. Taylor has become associated
with Col. J. W. Dodd in the editorial department
of the Rome Southerner.
Sni ggling Silks into the United States. —A
curious trial has occurred in Liverpool, which has
developed the fact that a Manchester merchant,
named John Brennan, has been for the past five or
six years defrauding the United States revenue, by
sending silks to this country, done up in hampers,
representing porter. The rascal had made an ar
rangement with a clerk in the employment of the
agent of one of the lines of passenger ships,
through whose connivance he had been enabled to
carry on a very successful smuggling business.
Three of the hampers having failed to reach their
destination, haring been thrown overboard in the
Hudson river, to escape detection, the Manchester
merchant brought suit against the clerk to recover
the value of their contents, but was non-suited, the !
judge declaring that he could not assist anybody •
in defrauding the government of the United States. ,
Damages Awarded. —Mr. Thomas Martin, a j
printer, from Baltimore, who some time since start- <
cd a newspaper at Lock Haven, Pa., to advocate
the cause of the American party, has recovered 1 ;
$103.88 damages from Mr. Pearce, a member of
Congress from that district. It is alleged that ;
large promises were made to Mr. Martin to leare
Baltimore and start the paper; that Mr. Pearce
figured conspicuously in said promises, and that
said promises were never fulfilled ; and hence the
suit, which was decided by arbitration.
We learn from the Brunswiok Herald that the
cars on the Brunswick and Florida railroad will
run to the St. Ilia river, a distance of thirty-two
miles, by the 15th of May, proximo. The bridge
across the St. Ilia is now in progress, and the road
beyond that point will he pushed forward with
energy and despatch. We also lcam from the
Herald that several bales of cotton have already
been received at Brunswick by the new* road.
Senator Douglas. —The Washington correspon
dent of the Baltimore Sun , says: “Hon. Judge
Douglas has conveyed to the Baptist denomina
tion of Chicago, Illinois, ten acres of land—a grove
—beautifully situated within the city limits, for
the purpose of erecting thereon a university—
with a condition that the ■trustees shall lay the
foundation of the edifice during the approaching
fall, and spend annually towards the building $25,
000 until completed. The value of the land is es
timated a1 $50,000. The Judge has also made a
handsome donation to the new Thirteenth-street
Baptist church in Washington city.”
Rhode Island Election.— The Providence Jour
nal says the representation from all the towns in
that State is now complete. The Americans aud
Republicans, counting the Lieut. Governor, will
have twenty-two of the thirty-two menbers of the
; Senate, and fifty-two of the seventy-two members
1 of the House—being a majority of forty-four of
the Grand Committee.
r Bishop O’Reilly.— The statement that this
[ Catholic prelate had arrived at Boston in the Cam
bria is contradicted by the Hartford (Conn.) Times,
which says the steamer brought a letter from his
brother in Ireland, dated the 27th of March, an
“ nouncing positively that he sailed in the Pacific.
1 The Rev. Mr. O’Reilly, who arrived in the Cam
; bria, is a nephew of the late Rev. Mr. Brady, of
1 Hartford.
Heavt and Valuable Cargo.— The Savannah
Republican, of yesterday, says: “ The ship Tribune
cleared Thursday for Liverpool, by E. A. Soullard,
i had ou board 2,337 barrels of flour, 2,262 bales up
s land cotton, and 818 do sea islands—weighing, in
- all, 281,732 lbs., and valued at $168,381.”
f
City Debts.— The city of New York owes $14,-
000,000; Philadelphia $10,000,000; New Orleans
? $8,000,000; Boston $7,000,000; Baltimore $5,000,-
- 000; Cincinnati over $2,000,000; St. Louis over
$2,000,000; Portland, Me., over $2,000,000; Mo
bile $1,500,000; San Francisco $1,500,000, and
f Augusta, Ga., $355,000.
a
The Franklin, (Tenn.) Review saj’s: “The
wheat crop is remarkably unpromising in this
f county. The stand is very bad.”
[> Consul to Havana. —The Mississippian, publish
ed at Jackson, announces that the office of Consul
to Havana has been tendered toCapt. A. K. Blythe,
e of Yalobusha county, Miss.
Mayor Wood, of New' York, is coming South.
He has consented to lecture before the ladies’
5 Mount Vernon Association at Richmond, Va., ear
] ly in May. Subject, “The character and genius of
5 Alexander Hamilton.”
* |g.
- The Buffalo Courier says that the roads in that
j vicinity are taxed to their utmost in the transpor
; tation of freight, and their whole force of engines
t and cars is in constant use.
i l—
* Another Earthquake.—The Japanese officials
report that on the 12tn of December another earth
quake visited Jeddo, destroying houses and tem
j pies, and burying nearly three thousand people be
neath the ruins.
A Just Rebuke.
The opposition papers seize with avidity, and
copy with much unction, every expression of dis
satisfaction with President Pierce, expressed by
Democratic papers. They fancy they see some
faint signs of encouragement for their own hopes
of defeating tha Democratic party m these occa
sional ebullitions of spleen. But they might as
well hope Jl to dam up the Nile with bulrushes,”
or impede by the caving in of a cotton-wood tree
into the Mississippi, the majestic movement of
that mighty stream to tlio Gulph, as to fancy that
these trivialties will check the grand inarch of the
Democracy to victory at the approaching election.
In a party numbering its millions of members—a
party which feels the vast responsibilities fur our
country and for coming generations resting on its
efforts, there will always be some malcontents.
There will always be some whose personal pre
judices or sinister schemes will prompt them to
forget great interests for private gain or private
pique—some who will lose sight of principles in
the indulgence of pet passions and private griefs.
But they are powerless for harm. They are inca
pablebf infusing their own petty motives through
any considerable portion of the great tide of senti
ment with which they mingle. They will be borne
helplessly along on its surface, or be cast ignomin
iously like weeds upon the shore.
These factious spirits are thus handsomely re
buked by the Mobile Register.
It is significant of the dread the opposition feel
of the re-nomination of Gen. Pierce, that their pa
pers take such delight in hunting up, and quoting
passages From Democratic papers to show that he
is not popular with his own party, and could not
be re-clccted. The secret is, they are conscious
that a re-nomination is equivalent to an election:
The Washington Sentinel puts up Buchanan for
President, and says that it shall with
the exception of Franklin Pierce, any nominee
that the Democratic Convention shall deem, after
a fair canvass of the qualifications of all, the most
suitable for the coming contest.”
And then it adds that “all the Democratic press
es in the land, with a sea of ink to back them,
would not be able successfully to defend Franklin
Pierce for some of his outrageous acts not yet
made public.”
4There is a significance in these remarks of the
Sentinel that may well cause the Softs of this State
to shake in their boots.— Advertiser.
Fiddlesticks, neighbor! There is just the same
“significance” in what the Washington Sentinel
says about Franklin Pierce as there is in what the
Advertiser says. It is a dead lock-race of hatred,
prejudice and spite between them. The Sentinel
puts its foot into the domestic struggle of the New
York Democracy and got its printing prospects
badly damaged, and has never forgiven the Ad
ministration for it; while the Advertiser hates
Pierce as a Democrat, and more than that, an in
corruptible, high-toned, consistent and successful
Democrat.
If Fhmklin Pierce be nominated bv the June
Convention it will not make a feather’s odds
whether the Sentinel supports him or not. The
Sentinel can lay on its oars or help the other side,
just aail pleases. In either event it will see the
dust from the victorious chariot wheels of the
choice of that Democracy. The Sentinel will have
to stand by its party or do worse. The Democracy
can spare tha Sentinel; the Sentinel cannot weil
spare the Democracy. No between, half way
friends in this contest’ Stand up, or stand aside.
Get in or get out, the train is about to move.
Clear the track. We have no patience with a man
or a newspaper pretending to be governed by
principle, when they tell us, if you nominate tins
man 1 will support him, but if that man, I will
not. A Presidential candidate, regarded in the
light of an embodiment of a certain principle or
creed, should be supported as such and not as a
mau. It would not be Franklin fierce that the
Sentinel would be called'on to vote for, but the
representative of the Democratic cause. And be
cause a Democrat did not personally like Franklin
Pierce, because he had some grudge ugainst him,
is that a good reason why he should retire to his
tent and take no part in the fight for his princi
ples. . We would not give a pinch of snuff tor ten
acres of such Democrats as this. In this coining
field they will, not be tolerated. The tight is go
ing io be too earnest, the stake too momentous to
put up with private coquetry or spleen. Every
inrn must fall into line or fall out of the ranks.
I f he have grudges against the Captain, or any of
the officers, he must either gulp them down and
do his duty like a true soldier, or be must stand
aside, and leave to the hosts of others who will fill
his place, all the glory of the battlfcand the victo
ry. No “ohksoldiermg” this time. Everything
for tin* for men ; and he who can
not sacrifice his personal and private griefs to the
good of the public cause is not worthy of a thought
as a gam or a loss to a pivrtv. He is’chaff. Clear
the truck for the Democracy!
Profusion of Foreign Fruit.— The Havana fruit
trade, which is now drawing to a close, has been
larger during the present season than at anv time
during the last fifteen years; the orange planta
tions in Cuba having recovered from the disastrous
year of 1844, when insects, storms, and other ad
verse influences, almost annihilated them. The
quality of the fruit is quite good. The total im
portations from Havana have been about 6,000,000,
of which 2,008,000 were* brought iu steamers,
there having been twenty-five arrivals, each bring
ing, on an average, SO,OOO oranges Fruit brought
in this expeditions manner receives the preference
in the market, on account of its freshness and su
perior flavor. About an equal quantity is received
here by schooners, and 2,000,000 more as deck
loads of sailing packets. There were six cargoes
by schooners, averaging 800,000 each cargo. A
few oranges are brought from Porto Rico and Ala
tanzas. Cuba oranges have sold, on an average,
for $8 per box : though some have sold as low as
$5,50, and some as high as sl3—according to
quality and supply. The common belief is, that
Havana oranges are always sweet; but those first
received, in the aututmu, bciug picked before fully
matured, are invariably sour, and it is only in
January, February, March and April, that the
orange’is in its best condition. Later in the sea
son than this, it is dry and spongy. The total
value of the importations of Havana fruit this sea
son is estimated at SIOO,OOO.
Fortunately, when the supply of oranges fails in
the West Indies, large cargoes begin to arrive
from the Mediterranean, ana the trade from that
direction is by far the most important. The lat
ter description of fruit is already becoming abun
dant in our market, so that there’ are now eight or
nine cargoes in port unsold, and boxes were sold
yesterday at the remarkably low rate of forty-four
cents (Bs. 6d). Vessels have recently made long
passages, and the fruit is often in bad condition.
When in prime order, $2.75 or $3 is realized. The
best Mediterranean fruit is received about the last
of April or early in May. It is judged by one of
our largest importers, that about fifty cargoes will
be received at this port the present season, of which
twenty have already arrived, and that the total im
portations will amount to 200,000 boxes, mostly
from Messina and Palermo. About one-tliird of
this quantity is lemons. The total valuation of
this fruit exceeds $500,000. A large deduction has
to be made for losses from decay. Supplies of
fruit from the Mediterranean continue until about
the time the domestic fruit trade commences in
the Fall; but it is finest about the first of May,
when the Havana fruit fails.
New York Journal of Commerce.
Pass the Scoundrel Along.— The South Alaba
mian publishes the following:
Inhumanity. —The humane sensibilities of our
community have been shocked by the death of a
negro boy’ on Wednesday, from the barbarous
treatment of his master, W. E. Ward, residing
some six miles South-west of this place. The cir
cumstances were developed by the Coroner’s in
quest. Ward called in Dr. Broughton, on Tuesday
last, statiug that the boy had tried to kill himself
by butting his head against a tree ; but the Dr. on
examining his patient, found that unmerciful
whipping had reduced him to the condition in
which he found him. On examination, his back
was found one the skin sloughing
or peeling off, stopping the circulation of the. blood
. in the capillary vessels, causing congestion ot the
lungs and death. We forbear entering at'length
into the details of revolting cruelty, and content
ourselves with stating the mere fact. Ward has
left for parts unknown, but it is to be hoped he
will yet be brought to justice.
What a fruitful theme for Abolition ravings
would be this instance of barbarous cruelty here
in the South, bur for one slight fact, which we will
state for the delectation of the Stowes and. others.
Ward is a Yankee, a brother philanthropist. An
instance cannot be cited of a Southerner treating
his servants with such inhumanity. It will be re
membered that some months back a negro woman
of this same Ward hung herself, no doubt driven
»to the act h.y the cruel treatment of her master.
Washington, April 16th, 1856.
r It is generally understood in well informed po
, litical circles, iu Washington, that, the prelimina
-5 ries of peace have been definitely agreed upon by
. the Allied Powers. I specify the parties to this
. arrangement, because Turkey, it is believed, has
■ demurred to certain conditions which enter into
. the settlement, and the parties designated are de
[* termined to have it their own wav. Should this
> be so, the cause of humanity would be largely the
gainer, as it is rumored That our Minister Spence
1 has, in late despatches, informed our Government
that Turkey is determined to persist in the sine qua
k non to a peace that Russia must relax her hold ou
, the principalities. This France will not consent
to, because the Greek Church, in the opinion of
1 Napoleon, is better than Mahommedism, and un
der the dominion of Russia that form of religion is
, guaranteed.
The British admiralty has, with commendable
promptness, sent out two steam vessels of war iu
quest of the Pacific. These vessels left their port
on the morning of the 26th March, but there is now
but little hope that they will be more successful
than the American vessels that were despatched on
the same errand of mercy.
With the exception of the “ Tunes."' the British
pi ess acknowledge the cogency and irresistible
arguments of Mr. Marcy’s paper on the Recruit
ment question. Some of the English papers are
unusually severe on Palmerston and Clarendon,
but it is well known that, their*object is not so much
to do justice to the United States as to effect a
change in the present British Cabinet. They will,
most probably, be successful.
The Black Republicans hold regular caucuses
thrice a week. The contest for nomination for
President is between Judge McLean and Wh. H.
Seward. Greeley will listen to no compromise,
and must have Seward or no one. They have a
meeting this evening, aud I will try and report
tbeir proceedings. •• ’ Sigma.
We received the following yesterday, and
presume that it was intended for publication :
littPixviLi.E, Ga., April 9, 1856.
Mr. James Gardner— Dear Sir: I noticed in the
Constituti/malUt of the 12th March, a resolution
offered by Ah'. Thornton, ct Muscogee, which was
agreed to, charging some of the Senators with il
lioerality—and I being one of that honorable body,
1 would wish to make some brief remarks on those
bills refused by the Senate. I for one was against
all those bills, and voted against all of them that I
had an opportunity of so doing. Iu the first place
the bill to appropriate mouey to the Hancock Ag
ricultural Society. Common sense teaches me that
this appropriation would be as useful in one coun
ty as another; but I am proud to say that Georgia
can and will carry on her agricultural interest
without fingering the money of the public treasury
of Georgia. lam as anxious to see the farming
interest improved us any man iu Georgia, but let it
be done without those abominable appropriations.
A bill to appropriate three thousand dollars to the
State Agricultural Society. This bill, in my opin
ion, is of no value, nor I cannot think that the
State ever would be benefited anything by this
advancement. Also, a bill to create a Common
School System in Georgia. Now, Sir. suppose we
would have passed this bill with all its features,
appropriating a fund to carry into effect the pro
visions of this act, locating schools in every coun
ty in the State. Sir, I say you must fix some way
or plan to compel parents to send their children to
or at least one half of the poor children of
Georgia would not be benefitted bv this act. There
are a great many parents that will not send their
children to school if they have ever so good an op
portunity. lam as much in favor of a common
school system as the honorable Representative
from Muscogee, if it could be done in a suitable
manner, for I see the necessity of education in our
country. Next comes the bill to appropriate thirty
five thousand dollars to educate one poor young
man from each county in the State, for teachers in
said State; and this is to be annually. Now, Sir, this
bill appears to uie to be something like the com
mon school bill. I cannot see where any benefit
could be derived from such a measure as this. In
the first place, you might educate one from earii
county, and when his education is completed, his
mind probably might be for something higher than
a teacher, or something else. So lam opposed to
any such principles.
1 have merely given my simple views on these bills
as beiDg charged with illiberally,and as the honor
able Representative from Aluscogee thinks the last
Senate unwise, and desires the people of-Georgia
to send more able and efficient men to that body,
my advice is to the people of Georgia to try to se
lect men that will guard the public treasury of
Georgia, especially in the House of Representatives.
With these remarks I close. I am your most obe
dient servant, * Cf*;ou«K Pauls.
Napoleon’s Private Life.
[ln an old volume of Baron Meneval’s “Sorenirs
of Napoleon,” published many years ago, we find
the fololwing pleasant and interesting picture of
the domestic life of the Emperor and his consort.
Mark* Louisa, after the birth of their unfortunate
son, the Duke of Reichstadt.”]
The Emperor appeared happy. He was affable
in his family, and affectionate to the Empress. If
lie found her looking serious, he amused her with
lively talk, and disconcerted her gravity by a hear- ■
ty embrace; but in public he treated her with
great respect and a dignity not inconsistent with
polished familiarity.
The Emperor wished her to learn to ride on
horseback. Her first lessons were taken in the
riding school ut St. Cloud. He walked bv her side,
holding her by the hand, while the groom the bri
dle of her horse; he thus calmed her scars and
encouraged her. When her skill did honor to her
teacher, the lessons were continued in a private al
ley of the park. The Emperor, when he had a
moment’s leisure after breakfast, ordered the
horses, mounted himself, in his silk stockings and
shoes, and cantered by the Empress’s side. He
urged her horse and made him gallop, laughing
heartily at her cries, but taking care that there
should be no danger, by having servants stationed
all along the path, ready to stop the horse and pre-
Meanwlule the King of Rome grew in strength
und beauty, under the watchful eye of Aladarne
de Moutcsquiou who loved him as her own child.
He was carrie j every morning to his mother, who
kept him till it was time to dress. During the
day in the intervals between her music and draw
ing, she went to see him in his apartment, and sat
by him at her needlework. Sometimes followed
by the nurse who earned the child, she took him
to his father while he was busy. The entrv to his
cabinet was interdicted to everybody, and the
nurse could not get in. The Emperor used to ask
Louisa to bring in the child herself, but she seem
ed so much afraid of her own awkwardness in
taking him from the nurse, that the Emperor hast
ened to take him from her, and carried him off,
covering him with kisses. That cabinet, which
saw the origin of so many mighty plans, so many
vast and generous schemes of administration, was
also witness to the effusion of a father’s tender
ness. How often have I seen the Emperor keep
ing his sou by him, as if impatient to teach him
the art of ‘grot-ruing? Whether seated by the
chimney ou his favorite sofa, lie was engaged in
reading* an important document, or whether he
went to his bureau to sign a despatch, every word
of which required to be weighed, his son, on his
knee, or pressed to his breast, was never a mo
ment away from him. Sometimes, throwing aside
the thoughts which occupied his mind, lie would
lie down on the floor beside this beloved son, play
ing with him like another child, attentive to every
thing that could please or amuse him.
The Emperor had a sort of aparatus for trying
military manoeuvres; it consisted of pieces of
wood fashioned to represent battalions, regiments
and divisions. When he wanted to try some new
evolution, he used to arrange these pieces on the
carpet. While he was seriously occupied with the
disposition of these pieces, working out some
skillful manoeuvre which might ensure the success
of a battle, the child lying at his side, would over
throw his troops, and ’put into confusion his order
of battle, perhaps at the most critical moment.
But the Emperor would re-comraence arranging
his men with the utmost good humor.
The Emperor breakfasted alone. Madame de
Montesquiou every morning took the boy to his
father’s breakfast table. He took him on His knee,
and amused himself with giving him morsels to
eat, and putting the glass to his lips. One day he
offered him a bit of something he had on his plate,
and, when the child put forward his mouth to take
it, drew it back. He wished to continue this game,
but, at the second.trial, the child turned away his
head, his father then ottered him the morsel in
earnest, but the boy obstinately refused it. As the
Emperor looked surprised, Madame de Montes
quiou said that the child did not like to be deceiv
ed ; he had pride, she said, and feeling. “ Pride
and feeling!” Napoleon repeated, “that is well
—that is what I like.” And, delighted to find
these qualities in his son, he fondly Kissed him.
The U. S. Sloop of war Portsmouth, now at the
Gosport (Va.) navy yard, will sail for the East In
dies about the 251 u inst.
Time to Me this Truth has Taught.
Time to me this truth has taught,
(’Tis a truth that’s worth revealing),
More offend from want of thought
Than any want of feeling— ~
If advice we would convey,
There’s a time we should convey it,
If we’re but a word to say,
There’s a time In which to say it.
Oft unknowingly the tongue
Touches on a chord so aching,
That a word or accent wrong,
Pains the heurt almost to breaking—
Many a tear of wounded pride,
Many a fault of human blindness,
Has been soothed or turned aside
By a quiet voice of kindness.
Many a beauteous dower decays,
Though we tend it e’er so much—
Something secret in it preys,
Which no human aia can touch.
So, in many a lovely breast
Lies some canker-grief concealed,
That if touched is more opprest —
Left unto itself is healea!
A Captive Recovered.
We find in the San Francisco Herald , of March
20th, an account of the recovery from the Mohave
Indians of a young American girl, about sixteen
years of age, named Olive Oatnian, whose father
and all of her relatives, except a brother and sis
ter, were murdered in the year 1850, about eighty
miles from the Gila river. * The boy escaped in the
darkness, and made known the story of the mas
sacre to a party of emigrants who had found him ;
but of the two surviving girls nothing had been
heard for nearly five years, when, about six months
ago, Col. Xauman, of the U. S. Army, on his way
to Fort Yuma, heard a rumor of there being two
female prisoners among the Yuma Indians, caused
runners to be sent out, with promises of reward,
Ac., should they be found. The result was, that
the elder of the two, the younger haying shortly
before died, was brought into Fort Yuma, where
she was ransomed, ana taken in charge by the of
ficers of the post. She was dressed in Indian cos
tume or no costume, and had almost forgotten the
English language ; she was able, however, to tell
her name. She borer the marks of severe slavery,
and her person was as much developed as that of
au ordinary girl of twenty years, especially in the
arms, hands and wrists. The Sisters of Mercy of
San Francisco had offered to receive the girl into
their care.—A 7 . O. Courier.
From the London LnnotL
A Remedy for Drunkenness*
BY MR. II JOG IN BOTTOM.
I would recommend ipecacuanha as a remedy
for drunkenness, taken in half-drachm doses as an
emetic. Ipecacuanha has the extraordinary pro
perty of stimulating the whole system, equalizing
the circulation, promoting the various secretions,
and, indeed, assisting each organ of the body to
perform its function, and to restore it to iis nor
mal state. Ipecacuanha can be taken with per
fect safety as an emetic ; on that account it is pre
ferable to tartar emetic. I believe the administra
tion of half a drachm of ipecacuanha as an emetic
to be a cure for periodical drunkenness. It is ob
served that in the intervals between the periods of
these attacks the person is quite sober, and often
remains so for two, three or four months, or for a
longer time. When the mania comes on, the in
tense desire for alcoholic stimulus is so strong as
to render the sufferer subject to no control, and,
from the sensation of depression and sinking, he
can look upon alcoholic stimulants as his only
remedy. When a person is in this state, it will be
always found that his stomach is in fault, and
the unnatural appetite arises from that cause alone;
if half a brachm of the powder of ipecacuanha
be taken so as to produce full vomiting, the
desire for intoxicating stimulus is immediately
removed.
From the experience I have had of the effects of
ipecacuanha, I am of opinion, if a patient can be
persuaded to follow up the emetic plan for a few
times when the periodical attack comes on, that
lie will he effectually cured, and the habit (for
such I look upon it) will be broken.
“Can a Mother Forget Her Suckling Child!—
Some three or four weeks ago an infant was
mysteriously left at the Shaker Village, in this
county, but this moral community, instead of care
fully bringing it up, as had no doubt been expec- .
ted," sent it to the county infirmary.
\\ appears now that it was the child of a widow
in this city in good society, who having been re
duced by ner widowhood, had little but her good
name left. This last she was anxious to keep, and
devised the plan, with a confidential nurse, of leav
ing the child at the Shaker Village to be raised.
She thought in that community it would be taught
to avoid the sin which had brought her so much
trouble. Dear as it was to her heart, she consol
ed herself in parting with it by the thought that
it would there have both better precept and exam
ple, than with its erring mother.
A sale of some jewelry—the remnant sf better
day*—enabled her to cjutv the plan into execution.
But iu a few days after she learned, to he: anguish,
shut it had been sent to the Infirmary, to be nursed
by, she dare not think whom, and to he brought
up with the offspring of the refuse of humanity.
Such a lot for her dear *-nbe ? But what could she
>do? She dare not claim it and avow her shame.
She could not leave it there, for it would break her
heart. At length love triumphed over pride—the
mother over the woman, and yesterday she went
out to the Infirmary to reclaim her child.
She saw the directors, explained the facts, and
they not only gave her her bube, but engaged to
keep her secret, and she returned with a load m
her arms, but a heavy weight oft’ her heart.
The nurse to whom the child had been given at
the Infirmary had become much attached to it.
She cried when it was taken away, and the mother
cried on getting it to her breast again. The scene
was a very affecting one.— Cinn. Gazette.
A Warning. —A few weeks since, iu the course
of conversation with an eminent broker, who has
been over forty years acquainted with the leading
moneyed men of the country, we asked if he ever
knew •?!:err.r*. who acquired wwnfy or * osithrm
by fraud, continue successful through life, and
leave a fortune at death ? We walked together
about three minutes iu silence, when he replied—
“ Not one ! I have seen meu,’’ he said, become
rich as if by magic, and afterwards reach a high
fiosition in public estimation, not only for
lonor and enterprise, but even for piety," when
some small circumstance, of no apparent impor
tance, has led to investigations, wnich resulted in
disgrace and rain.”
On Saturday, we again conversed with him up
on the same subject, and he stated that since our
last interview he bad extended his inquiries among
a large circle of acquaintances, and with one soli
tary exception, and that doubtful, their experience
was to the same effect as his own. He then gave
a brief outline of several small and big schemers
and their tools, their rise and their fail. Suicide,
murder, arson, and perjury, he said, were common
crimes with many of those who made “baste to be
rich,” regardless of the means; wnd lie added,
there are not a few men who may be seen on
change every day, ignorantly striving for their
own des motion. It is not, he said, so much the
love of gold that leads many business men astray,
as the desire to be thought sharp or successful.
He concluded that fortunes acquired without hon
esty, generally overwhelmed their possessors with
infamy. —Boston Atlas.
2056.—A coteniporary turns his vision to the fu
ture. and through the misty distance of two hun
dred years sees and describes the following :
Scene—House of u citizen of New York.
Time—A. D. 2056. A telegraphic message lias
been sent to the servant, who presents himself at
the window in a balloon.
Master—John, go to South America and tell Mr.
Johnson that I shall be happy to have him sup
with me this evening. Never mind your coat, go
right away.
In five minutes John returns.
John—Mr. Johnson says he will come; he is
obliged to go to the North Pole for a moment, and
will call here when he comes back.
Master—Very well, John ; now yon may wind
up the machine for setting the table, and telegraph
to mv wife that Mr. Johnson will be here present
ly. After that, John, you may dust out my bal
loon. I have au appointment in London "at 12
o’clock.
John disappears to execute these orders, while
his master steps down to the West Indies to get a
fresh oi^nge.
A Patient Shanghai. —A letter written from
Fauquier co., N. C., gives an account of a Shanghai
chicken which fell into a dry well and remained
there twenty-nine days without food or water;
and at. the end of that time it was taken out alive.
Last week Col Browne, of King George county,
Va., caught 50,000 herrings and many shad at a
single haul on the Potomic.
Jos. Roach has been convicted at St, Louis of
mail robbery, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for ten years.