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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 Daily, in advance per annum $6 00 If not in advance per annum.... 7 00 Tri-W eekly, in advance.. per annum 4 00 If not in advance per annum.... 5 00 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 LETTER PRESS FRINTINO 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.