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Three Days Later from Europe.
arrival
OF THE STEAMSHIP .
-COTTON ADVANCED >g TO }{.
'Srw York, April 19.—The British and North
American Royal Mail steamship Africa, Capt.
Harrison, has arrived with Liverpool dates to the
Oth April.
The Cotton market has advanced from % to %d.
von the ordinary grades, and from 1-16 to %d., on
the better grades. The sales of the week had
reached 67,000 bales, of which speculators took
I4poo pad exporters 3,000 bales. Middling Or
leans 6d., Middling Uplands 5%, and fair Uplands
<>%d. Stock on hand 410,000 bales.
[The quotations furnished by telegraph by the
Africa, compared with the quotations received by
the Baltic of the 2nd April, and Cambria of 20th
March, do not show the improvement in prices
rthat is claimed in the above despatch.]
Consols were quiet, and were quoted at 03.
Breadstuff* were rather inactive.
Trade hi the manufacturing districts was active,
; and money was easy at previous rates.
The Peace Conference was still in session at
Paris, discussing minor details. The intelligence
. :>f the action of the Conference was very favora
bly received at St. Petersburg.
There was a report of lights haviug been seen
in the ice off Newfoundland, bnt it is regarded as
n humbug, so far as it is intended to excite favora
ble hopes in regard to the safety of the steamer
Pacific.
Later from Central America.
Xbw Orleans, April 22.—The steamship Charles
Morgan, Henry Place, commander, has arrived
.from Nicaragua.
The defeat of Col. Schlessinger, at the battle
with Uie Costa Ricans, is confirmed. lie has been
court niartiuled for treason and cowardice. Nine
ty of his army are missing. Another slight en
gagement with the enemy had resulted victorious
ly for the Nicaraguans. Gen. Walker is at the
head of seven hundred troops, and gone forth to
meet the enemy.
New York .Market.
New York, April 19.—The Cotton trade was
.active to-day, and the market firm. Sales ">,OOO
bales. Middling Uplands 11% to 11% cents.
Flour.— The Flour market has improved 12%
cents per barrel.
New Orleans Market.
New Orleans, April 21. —Sales 9000 bales. Mid
dling 10% to 10%. No change in freights.
New Orleans, April 19.— Cotton. —Sales to-day
14,500 bales. Middling Orleans 1 c\% to 10%c.
New Orleans, April 17.—Cotton is stiffer, and
6*500 bales changed hands at 10%c. for Middling.
Albany, N. li., April 13.—The vote for Mavorin
the seventh and eighth wards, f which elected Dr.
Quackcnbush, Democrat,) was rejected bv the Com
mon Council last night, on the ground’of alleged
frauds in canvassing, and Eli Perry, the American
candidate, was declared elected Mayor.
Washington, April 16.—Gen. Robes, to-dav pre
sented his credentials as Minister to Mexico, with
expressions of friendship, and an earnest desire to
preserve peace between the two Republics were
mutually interchanged.
Cincinnati, April 14.—Eighteen houses in Wil
liam.® town, Ky., were destroyed by fire on Satur
day. The mahogany saw miil of Henry Albro, in
Cincinnati, was damaged by tire yesterday, to the
extent of #12,000.
Cleveland, April 10.—A steamer which arrived
here to-day from Detroit reports encountering very
little ice on the trip.
Detroit, April 10.— Steamers left here to-day
for Sandusky and Toledo.
Buffalo, April 15.—The Erie Canal'is reported
to be in such condition, between this citv and
Lock port, as to preclude the possibility of open
ing it before the 3th of May.
New York, ApVil Id.—Biship O’Reilly, who
was supposed to have been on board the missing
steamer llaeiftc, is safe, und came in the steamer
Cambria.
Albany, April 10.—The *Milwaukie AgrituHu
ralutt, of Saturday, publishes letters giving the
stock of Wheat und Flour at Milwaukie, Chicago,
and other ports on Lake Michigan, Detroit, Cleve
land, Cincinnati, Rochester, Oswego, Toronto and
Buffalo. The whole amount is stuted to be 1,501,-
770 bushels of Wheat, and 319,237 barrels of
Flour.
Montpelier, April 13.—The extensive flouring
mill of R. W. Hyde, in this village, was burnt this
morning, together with the stock of machinery.
It was fully insured.
Washington, April IS.— Mr. Dallas, in a letter
just received here, says that the subject of the dif
ferences between the "English Government and the
United States will be fully discussed in Parliament.
He is led to believe that the discussion will not
be devoid of acrimony towards this country, but
he is prepared to bear it like a philosopher. He
mentions with particularity numerous acts of
murked courtesy extended him, including those of
members of the Cabinet; and he regards these
manifestations as expressive of a peaceable dispo
sition towards this country.
New Orleans. April 19* 6 P. M.—Middling Cot
ton is worth 10% etuis* :»•. Freights of Colton
to Liverpool rule at 3-1 6d: t!-.
* New Orleans, April 18.—Cotton is greatly exci
ted under the Baltic’s advices, and 15,000* bales
were sold at an advance of %c. Middling was
worth 10%c. The sales during the week comprised
66,00# bales, and the receipts 48,000. The increase
in the receipts amounts to 520,000 bales, and the
stock to 260,000. Bacon Sides were worth 9 cents,
aud Shoulders from 7% to Bc. per lb., and scarce.
Raleigh, (N. C.) April 16. — The Democratic
‘state Convention met to-day and was duly organ
ized. Gov. Bragg was nominated for another
term without opposition. A resolution was adopt
ed recommending the renomination of Gen.
Franklin Pierce for the Presidency, and the nomi
nation of Hon. J. C. Dobbin for the Vice Presiden
cy. Messrs. Shaw and Hill were nominated for
Presidential Elector*for the State at large.
Messrs. Avery, Ashe, Ileate aiid Brown were
chosen to delegate for the State at large to the
Democratic National Convention, which assembles
at Cincinnati on the 6th of June.
There is a full attendance of delegates to the
Convention, and the best feeling prevails.
Additional by the Africa.
New York, April 19. — An Imperial manifesto,
dated St. Petersburg, the Ist iustant, says that al
though the war had not been sought by Russia, it
had been waged with great energy by the Russian
people; and that, notwithstanding peace had been
f>roclaimed, the rights of the Christians in the East
lad been secured—thus attaining the objects of the
•war on the part of Russia.
Special arrangements had been made to prevent
-collisions between Russian and Turkish vessels in
the Black Sea.
A new line of frontier had been agreed upon in
Bessarabia.
A letter from Cronstadt says that a squadron,
consisting of five steamers, had been ordered by
the Russian government to be ready for sea by the
middle of next month, and it was generally* sur
mised that the Czar, or his brother, would visit
Louis Napoleon.
The Spanish government had conferred the
order of the Golden Fleece on the Prince of Al
giers.
A Heet of Sardinian vessels had been ordered to
sail from Genoa, for the purpose of bringing back
troops from the Crimea. Tne health of tbeFrench
troops in the Crimea was improving, aud they
-were to return in bodies of twenty thousand men.
The Austrian army had been reduced thirty
thousand men.
The British squadron in the Baltic had been re
called.
The authorised quotations of the Liverpool
Board of Brokers were G %d. for Fair Orleans, 6%d.
for Fair Uplands, and o%d. for Fair Mobile. The
Liverpool Circular of McHenry & Co., dated the
4th instaut, quotes Middling Orleans at 6 l-16d.
The barque Suinter, Capt. Humphrey, had ar
rived at Gravesend; the tern W. B. Scranton,
Capt. Cat heart, and the ship Yenmssee, Captain
Childs, a; Deal, and the ketch Commerce, Captain
•Hinckley, at Marseilles.
From the April 18. Jk
The French Empire. Jr
The birth of an heir to the
French raises another Europ©o»i tjtre?Tioii, which
will become of serious consequences whenever
peace is re-established amoug the parties to the
Russian war. The Emperor Napoleon will have
established himself as a powerful sovereign, con
trolling the conditions of peace, and adjusting the
balances of power among the other sovereigns
and nationalities iff Europe. He will be no sus
pected adventurer of uncertain position, whom.it
is safe to slight, and to mark for ostracism and ex
pulsion, at a convenient season; but a dictator
among sovereigns, whose will must be their law.
The Eastern war will have placed France at the
head of the nations of Europe; and the elected
Emperor of France on a level with or above the
proudest and oldest of the dynasties ; und he will
then have the right to require that they shall re
ceive and treat him as such, and revoke all the
proscriptions which they enunciated against him,
when France placed him in the seat of the exiled
Bourbons over the wreck of a betrayed republic.
The birth of his son creates the occasion and ne
cessity for him to make that demand, and the
French Emperor is not the man to defer asking
for his rights, or submit to tlie denial of them with
complacency and resignation. He has an heir to
ais throne ; and the French people, under all the
forms of free choice, which were permitted to
them, and such as arc evidence to other natious
which they cannot deny, of a national will, have
made Louis Napoleon Emperor, and given him
the pow'er to settle the throne on his own posteri
ty, making the elective empire, hereditary. To all
this, and against it a lawfulness apd principle,
and against its dangerous effects upon the
principles to which their own Government owe
stability, and even existence, the three leading
powers of Eastern Europe have made a combined
protest. They have, moreover, entered into an al
liance with each other to restrain the fact of a
French empire w ithin the limits of the life of Lou
is Napoleon, and bound themselves to each other
to prevent the posterity from ascending the French
throne, and to recognise as its only lawful posses
sor the eldest heir of the Bourbons. The treaty,
in which Russia, Austria, and Prussia made this
compact with each other, in hostility to the per
manency of any imperial dynasty of the Bona
partes iu France, was signed at Warsaw in March,
1852, after the repression, by the allied despots, of
the republican movements" within their several
dominions, and the consolidation, then plainly at
huud, of the Empire iu France, on he ruins of the
republic. This treaty declared the principle of
hereditary right as the law of succession to the
thrones, ami the basis of all order in Eu
rope ; that the principle of hereditary sovereignty
is embodied in France, in the person of the Count
de Chambord, as the head of the house of Bour
bon ; and that the imperial dignty, when assum
ed byXouis Napoleon, would be a negation of this
principle, and the three powers undertook to lay
down precisely the rules of action, by which they
would be guided in the following contingencies:
If Prince Louis Bonaparte, nrnv President of the
French Republic, should be named Emperor for
life, by the voice of universal suffrage, the powers
will only recognize this new form of the elective
empire after having demanded from Prince Louis
Bonaparte explanations of the signification of this
new title—after having drawm from him the pledge,
first, that he will respect existing treaties; second,
that he will not seek any increase of the territory;
and third, that he will forbear any pretension to
found a dynasty.
In case Prince Louis Bonaparte should declare
himself hereditary Emperor, the powers will not
recognize the new Emperor; but will send to the
French and all the other Governments a protesta
tion, grounded upon ♦he principles of public right,
- and the literal interpretation of treaties. They will
then, according to circumstances,consult upon new*
• measures.
i In case that a rising of the people or army shall
i overthrow the Government of Prince Louis Bona
parte, or in case he should die, the powers pledge
. themselves to favor the restoration of the heirTff
, the legitimate throne by all menus in their power.
, and to recognise in future no dynasty but that of
. the Bourbons.
The treaty is now’ in force, binding Russia, Prus
sia and Austria to maintain the pretensions of the
Count de Chauibmd (the Bourbon Henry V.) as
lawful inheritor of the throne of France, whenever
\ Napoleon 111. shall die, or be overthrown by any
internal revolution or external force. The young
Prince of Algeria, who has just been recognised in
l France as the heir of the Emperor, is thus, at his !
birth, repudiated by the three strongest powers of
continental Europe, as incapable of inheriting the
throne of his father, with or without the consent
of the nation. The son of the Emperor is not the
j heir of France in the eyes of those who assumed
1 in 1852 to define the law of succession for all En
. rope, and to dictate the law for France. And on
the day when the French Emperor gathers around
him, in his own capital! the representatives of oft
these poweis, to w'noniJhe has been an arbiter, if
[ not quite a dictator, in marking ont the bounda
ries to which each df them shall confine itself on
the map of Europe, there is a subsisting pledge
' among them to wait only for his death to expel his
son from the inheritance. Will this be submitted
1 to V and for how long ? Can there be any cordial
' itv of intercourse, or indeed any intercouse at all,
between parties which stand in such an attitude
!. towards each other! that of public insult on one
side ipi atoned for and public injury unredressed,
and on the other the full consciousness of power,
• and the stern will to assert the rights and the dig
-1 nity are denied !
\Vhen peace is made, therefore, the relations of
Fiance to the rest of Europe on terms of absolute
equality, will, without doubt, be asserted by the
| Emperor Napoleon, and insisted upon with his
constitutional determination of character. It will
be a curious problem for the asserters of the invi
olability of hereditary rights to meet under such
; circumstances, one who has been to some of them
f f an indispensable ally and a powerful protector, and
, to another a rival wnom it is all-important to con
ciliate. The question of who shall be acknowledg
ed heir of France w'ill thus, in all probability, be
come a European question, affecting the alliances
of States, and indirectly all the movements of Gov
ernments and nationalities.
Destructive Fire in West fomt.
We regret to state that a most destructive fire
broke out in our town last night about half past 11
o’clock. It originated in the Railroad Hotel, occu
: pied by Mr. G. W. E. Bedell, and consumed the
whole of that large building and three others, be
, sides outhouses. No one knows how the tire start
ed, though we heard it asserted that it was first
: discovered in a room usually unoccupied. The de
• struction was complete, allowing but little time
■ even for saving some of the furniture. We under
stand that the Hotel was insured for $5,000, and
the furniture for $3,000 —in what company w e did
■ not hear. The Hotel belonged to Mr. Timothy
■ Collins, and the furniture to Mr. Bedell. We have
• been unable to ascertain whether or not any of the
other buildings destroyed w’ere covered by insur
• unce. The destruction*of property is variously es
» timated—some estimating it at $i5,000 and others
i $20,000.
Our townsmen, generally, were very ready and
■ active in lending assistance to stop the flames, but
for w’hose labor and the stillnes of the night, near
ly all of the business portion of the town must
have been destroyed.- It is almost invidious, where
all acted so well,’to make any discriminations; but
we cannot forbear mentioning the namesof Messrs.
; W. C. Darden, A. W. Pyle, 11. M. Scott, B. W.
| Pyle, E. Hulbert, W. H. Lanier, and Laws, as
, among the most active and persevering.
West Point Beacon, April 19.
Greenville and Columbia Railroad. —We ex
tract a few items from the reports of the officers
1 of the Greenville and Columbia railroad. We
hope to be able to publish the President’s report
in our next issue.
The income of the road for the year 1855, was
$879,012.56, exceeding that of 1854 by $22,295.79.
Current expenses for 1854 were $192,241.19, which
in 1855 was reduced to $181,735.60. The differ
ence of expenditures in 1854 and 1855, added to
the increase of income in 1.855, would give an ex
cess of income in 1855 over income in 1854, of $32,-
802, 35. The reports show’ a surplus income over
and above the expenses in 1855, of $151,181,89,
which has been applied to the debts of the Com
pany. Only $71,500 of Coqpon Bonds have been
sold since the last report. —Abbaville Banner.
Corporation Subscription to the Trunk Road.
We learn from the Argus, that the town Com
missioners of Bainbridge purpose submitting to
the voters, resident within the corporate limits of
that town, that they shall subscribe one hundred
thousand dollars conditional stock to the Atlan
tic and Gulf road. Also, that Hon. W. S. Beal, a
wealthy citizep and member of the board of Town
Commissioners, purposes to relinquish gratuitous
ly to the Company one half of his town property,
provided the road is located to Bainbridge.
Thomas side Watchman.
The first private execution in Virginia took
place in Bedford county last Friday, when a slave
was hung for killing Capt. Robinson.
— r-
T - Murderer Convicted by a Horse.
"\VaS7 Peterson was tried at Raleigh, Shelby
county, Tennessee, for the murder of Thomas Mer
riweather, a young planter of Mississippi. The
incidents developed upon the trial were of the
most romantic nature; and the evidence, although
circumstantial, made out a clear case of one of the
most revolting murders “to be found in the chroni
cles of guilt.
There was one point in the case, about which
alone there could be said to be doubt, and this
point was met by the evidence afforded by the
horse of Mr. Merriweather.
In order to understand this, we must state by
the law of Tennessee, the criminal court of Mem
phis has criminal jurisdiction of all crimes com
mitted in the sth, 13th and 14th civil districts of
said county v
The circuit court of Shelby county had criminal
jurisdiction in the 12th and other civil districts of
the county. The prisoner was indicted m the cir
cuit court at Raleigh, and *the murder was al
leged to have been committed in the 12th district.
The dividing line between the 12th and 13th dis
tricts was the rqful leading from Memphis to Her
nado. «•
If the crime w’as committed in the 13th civil
district, the court of Raleigh had no jurisdiction,
aud the prisoner would have to be acquitted.
The deceased was found some forty or fifty steps
from the Hernado road. The witness stated that
the body, as he thought, had been dragged there
from the road, hence the doubt whether the mur
der took place in the 12th or 13th civil district.
At this critical point, the counsel h'etook them of
certain marvellous and of the noble
horse which had been which had come
to their knowledge in coavenHopn with the wit
nesses.
The known instinct of animals has, from time
immemorial, been esteemed in the law as among
the sources of evidence by which the dearest
rights of life, liberty and property have been de
termined.
Testimony as to these facts was proposed to be
submitted on behalf of the State, but was stoutly
opposed by the prisoner s counsel, who knew its
overwhelming force.
The learned judge over-ruled the objections and
admitted the testimony. It had been proved in
the course of the trial that about eight o’clock on
the Sunday following that on which the deceased
and prisoner left Mr. Hammel's, a gentleman
coming toward Memphis met the horse proven to
have been Mr. Merriweather’s, on the road, about
two thousand yards from the scene of murder, and
South of the same, gallopping at full speed in the
direction of Hernado, and appearing to be ex
ceedingly frightened; with difficulty tHb gentleman
intercepted and caught him.
The gentleman finding the animal almost un-‘
controllable from fright, had 9ome difficulty in
retaining the rein until a young man came forward
and claimed him.
The young man who claimed the horse was re
cognized by the gentleman at trial, as the prisoner
at the bar. He came forward, said the gentleman,
claimed the horse, thanked him gracefully for
catching him, mounted and rode off hurriedly in
the direction of Hernado. The facts here sub
mitted to the jury, in reference to the wonderful
instincts, are these:
It will be remembered that the noble animal in
question was of extraordinary intelligence, and
singularly attached to his master, whom he was in
the habit of following about whenever he would
come to the pasture or the farm yard where the
horse was. * j
Some several months after the prisoner had
been committed to jail under indictment, William
Merriweather, accompanied by a number of gen
tlemen, witnesses in the case, came up from their
homes in Mississippi to attend the trial.
William Merriweather was riding the horse of
the deceased brother, which had, by this time,
been recovered in the family. The journey lay
along the Hernado road, and by the spot where
the body had been found. About two hundred
yards before the party reached the scene of the
murder, the horse upon which Wm. Merriweather
was mounted, began to exhibit symptoms of
alarm, and his intractable conduct much surprised
his rider and the gentlemen who were with him.
There was no apparent cause of alarm, and the
several other horses of the party betrayed none.
His agitation increased as the party approached
the fatal spot; and when they reached a point in
the road opposite to it, the excitement of tne horse
rose to so ruriousa pitch that he became almost un
manageable.
The whole party now' checked their horses, and
for a moment regarded the strange eonduct of
the horse with profound astonishment. His flesh
quivered—his nostrils distended, and his eye
glancing into the wood where his noble master had
met his horrible fate—he stood for a moment,
snorting and neighing—a sublime picture of the
wildest excitement.
One of the party suggested to Mr. Merriweather
so give him the rein that, meanwhile, had been
tightly drawn. This was done, and
■ noble animal rushed into the wood, and down to
the identified tree under which the body had been
found, and commenced pawing at its root. After
a moment h$ trotted out further into the wood,
and, after making a semi-circle in his course, re
turned to the same spot, and there stood neigh
ing, trembling and pawing until he was forced
away. Similar exhibitions were made by the
horse a number of times afterwards in passing
the spot.
“At this startling development in the testimony, a
tHrill of feeling ran through the Court-room like
an electric shock.
Thus far the proof had traced out the history of
this mysterious murder with a certainty too fearful
to be doubted ; and had pointed to the pallidyouth
who sat in the prisoner’s dock as the guilty agent
thereof.
Justice tempered even with au unstrained mer
cy, seemed impatient for the sacrifice, when the
strong arm of the law interposed iu its might and
majesty to shield him. The venue unproven, or
even in doubt, would have left to the tribunal of
justice uo other alternative than to bid him to go
out again a free wanderer upon the earth, with the
blood and guilt thick upon him. But the God who
“marketh the sparrow when he falls,” in his in
scrutable Providence, had yet in reserve an elo
quent witness against him—whose faithful heart
was steel to the wiles <ff the corrupter, and whose
testimony foil upon the astounded ears of the jury,
“Confirmation strong,
As proof of holy writ.”
No blood had ever been seen on the. road—and
no appearance of any struggle there. If the kill
ing had been done in the road, the horse, whose
rapid flight aud wild fright must have been occa
sioned instantly bv the death struggle, would have
known nothing of* the tree in the wood. The scene
was pictured before the minds of the jury—as if
typed by the glorious art of Daguerre; the decoy
into the wood—the robber’s demand for gold or
blood—the death struggle at the tree—and the in
stincts were destined to vindicate, as if by a mira
cle, the unerring certainty of retribute justice; and
thus the venue was proven—thus the doom of the
prisoner was sealed, and thus
A Debbie in the streamlet
Hath turned the course of many a river;
A dew drop on the baby plant
Hath warped the giant oak forever.
The verdict of the jury was, that the prisoner
was guilty, and sentence of death was pronounced
against him, w hich was afterwards commuted to
imprisonment for life in the State Penitentiary.
In that gloomy catacomb of human hearts and
hopes, where time is as eternity, and by a sense of
liberty lost, William Peterson now expiates his
dreadful crime.
Singular Compromise Case. —A New York let’
jer, of the 10th inst., to the Baltimore American,
says:
You may remember the facts of the arrest of a
young man at the Astor House, some three or four
weeks ago, charged with having left Australia
very suddenly, with some $40,000 of his em
ployer’s property. You may also remember that a
member of the firm. succeeded in attaching a
large portion of the monev, which had been placed
in the hands of Messrs. Coleman & Stetson, by the
young man for safe-keeping. The principal tried
the laws of New York upon his defaulting em
ployee, but finding that the case would probably
take years to bring it to a final settlement, conclu
ded to compromise the matter, and submitted to a
loss of about SII,OOO. The late clerk remains in
New York to spend what he has left of his ill-got
ten gains, and the employer took his departure
from Boston yesterday m the steamer Cauada for
NOTICE.
A PHYSICIAN wishing a location in a
wealthy community,’where an extensive and
profitable practice can be secured, can obtain one
by paying about $350 for Medicine, Instruments,
Ac. An early application to D. B. PLUMB, Au
gusta, Ga., will likely please one feeling interested.
jan22 toctf
bacon and lard.
-| A ASIA LBS. Tennessee BACON.
JL Oiimv hog round.
100 kits and cans of LARD.
For sale by apt daclm A. STEVEN'S.
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COMMERCIAL.
Augusta Market. April 22, 4 P. M.
COTTON. —For the season of the year, and the
stock offering, there was a considerable amount of
business done during the past week, at very full
prices. To-day there was a decided calm in the
trade, and we heard of but few sales. As near as
we could ascertain, the following are the quota
tions current at the time of making this report.
Ordinary to good middling 9%@10; low middling
to middling 19%@10%; strict middling to good
. middling 10%@11; middling fair to fair
Prices are full, and the receipts are daily on the
decline at this point. At New Orleans the receipts
continue larger than last year, but at all other At
lantic ports there is a falling off.
HEAVY COTTON GOODS—In this depart
ment of trade, sales have been large,
among the wholesale dealers) for the past week,
and stocks would necessarily have been greatly re
duced, but for the weekly supplies which have
regularly come in. The quotable changes in prices
are trifling. Osnaburgs, Brown and Bleached
Sheetings and Shirtings, and all other heavy Cot
ton Goods are beginning to show slightly the ef
fects of the high price of Cotton, but in the finer
fabrics no advance is yet perceptible. 1
DR"I GOODS.—Our Dry Goods houses have re
ceived very full supplies of staple and fancy arti
cles adapted to the season, of new and elegant
styles. The warm weather of the past week has
made this department of trade quite active, the
Ladies in selecting beautiful Spring Silks, Grena
dines, Bareges, Muslins, Mantillas, and many oth
er articles with new names, while' the Gentlemen
have provided themselves with articles cf less
i show, but not less necessary for comfort, with the
! thermometer at 00 in the shade. Our Millinery
j establishments are also amply provided with every
thing m their line of trade, and of the latest Pari*
fashions , comprising a gretgtvafiety of choice and
elegant articles, the Ladies’ ward
robe. Our Co >ds
linery,
not it, but from
uhants for good
taste in their selection!?! SjpTtter of no little im
’ portallje to inexperienced purchasers at retail. We
advise ctar country friends not to delay their risit j
too long, lest our city Ladies (so remarkable for
chaste and refined taste in articles of dress) get a
decided advantage over them, in making the best
Selections. Several of our Merchants are selling
for cash, and offer Goods at a very small margin
j from New York cost.
BUSINESS.—From a cursory glance through
theleveral railroad depots, and at the wharves, we
s|he mipressed with the conviction that there must
he quite an active business going on in the re
jeiving and forwarding departments, for this late
period in the season. But the maim feature is,
that a very large portion of this business is sup
plied by our merchants, from their well selected
and large assortment of goods. Grain, Flour, Ba
con, Ac., from Upper Georgia and Tennessee, are
■ readily exchanged for Groceries, Hardware, staple
and fancy Dry Goods, Ac. A surplus finds an out
let through the many avenues to and from Au
gusta, by the several railroads, plankroads, the
river and the canal. Our extensive carriage and
furniture establishments, machine shops, foundries
and other departments of enterprise among us, are
sending forward their commodities to the interior,
and quite an active business is apparent on every
side in our midst.
GROCERIES.—Our merchants are actively em
ployed in the spring trade, and constant accessions
keep up their supplies. Stocks are largo, fresh,
and bought to good advantage, and they are well
, prepared to enter into competition with other mar
kets in furnishing merchants and planters in the
i interior. There has been no material change in
1 any of the leading articles.
» SUGARS.—Porto Rico 8% to 10 ; Moscovado 8
5 to 9%; New Orleans Bto 10. The supply of hhd.
. Sugars is good. Os barrel Sugars, we quote for A
i tiQUU ; B 10% ; and C 10% to 10% cents.
} COFFEE.—Rio, good to prime, 12%@13; choice
| 13X; Java 16X.
MOLASSES.—Cuba 57, and New Orleans 47@50.
CANDLES.—SuppIy large, and good Adaman
tines from 26 to 28 cents.
SHOT—S2.2S ; fonder $8.50; Lead 8 cents.
BACON.—There is still ait active demand for
Bacon, and prices are firm. Tennessee, liog round,
10; clear Sides 10%@11 ; Shoulders 9to 9% ; and
Hams 10 to 11 cents. Western Bacon Sides, ribbed,
10 obits; Shoulders 9; and Hams 12 to 15 cents.
‘ The supply of Bacon is light.
FLOUR.—City Mills, Superfine SB, and Extra
$9.50; Country Mills from $7 to $8.50. The sup
ply of Flour is large, and the demand limited.
CORN.—Selling in lots at 60 cents, but at retail
65 cents.
LAND WARRANTS.—The demand continues
• good, with a slight advance in prices. Buyers are
now paying tor 120’s 90 cents $ acre ; 40*s, 80’s
and 160’s, $1 V acre.
STOCKS.—Several small lots of Georgia Rail
road A Banking Co., have beeu sold at 98 since
dividend. We hear of no other operations in
Stocks, although all kinds are in good request.
EXCHANGE.—The Banks are drawing on the
North at %th prbimum.
UNCURRENT MONEY.-Tennessee and North
Carolina, large bills, 2 $ cent, discount; small
bills 3; Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana aud Vir
ginia bank bills, 2 $ cent.; Texas and Northern
Bank of Mississippi, 10 # cent.; Dalton and La
Grange Bank Bills 10 cent. Macon, Atlanta,
Griffin, Columbus, as well as the money of the
Northern and Eastern States, 2 y cent.
FREIGHTS—To Savannah, by the river, 25 cts.
y bale, by the railroad 50 cents. To Charleston
75c. <jS bale, by railroad. Corn to Charleston 8 cts.
and to Savannah 6 cents by the river.
CHARLESTON, April 21.— Cotton. —There was
a good demand for this article to-day, the sales
having reached upwards of 2,150 bales Prices
have gradually stiffened since our report of the
18th, and the market closed showing an advance
of %<s%c. on the prices current at that time. The
transactions comprise 120 at 9% ; 22 at 10% ; 110
at 10%; 64 at 10%; 91 at 19%; 151 at 10%; 134
at 10%: 184 at 11; 34 at 11%; 155 at 11%; 55 at
U%J 57 at 11 7-16 ; and 936 bales at like. We
quote Good Middling 11%@11%, and Middling
Fair 11%@11%c.
SAVANNAH, April 21. — Cotton. —We report
sales to-day of 148 bales, at the following prices:
7at 9%; 12 at 10; 7 at 10%; 50 at 11% ; and 72
bale» at 11% cents.
Freights. —Owing to the small demand offering,
freights are dull at the following quotations : To
Liverpool %d.; to New York, Baltimore and Phila
delphia 5-16 c.
MACON, April 19.— Ottton. —But little doing;
prices range from 3to 10%c. Freight to Savan
nah 45 cents $ Central Railroad.
Groceries. —-There is a good supply of Bacon.
Hog round at 10 cents. Sides and Hams 11 cents.
Molasses, Cuba, 42 to 45 cents. Goshen Butter 82
to 35 cents. Adamantine Candles 26 to 27c. No
Cheese in market.
Corn. —This article sells at 50 to 60 cents, by the
quantity.
Flour.—U to $4.50 $ 100.
Hay. —Northern $2; Tennessee $1.50 ip 100.
Peas. —Bo cents to $1 p bushel.
Exchange on the North % of one $ cent.
Apples $2 $ bushel.
April lT—Flour very dull, $5.25;
Bacon Sides 8 ; prime Lard 9%<510 ; Whisky 20;
Mesj Pork $14.50.
BALTIMORE, April ?6th.—Bacon Sides 8%,
Shorters 7%, Jfttms 9, for bulk meat; but for
hhds.>3ides 9% to 9%, Shoulders 8% to 8%, and
Hams 11 to 12%; Whisky 25; Coffee 11% to 12%;
Baltimore Flour $6.50;” Ohio extra, and a few
choice brands $7.50 to $10; Corn 48 to 52; Rye
80; Oats 32 to 34; Mess Pork $16.25 to $17.50;
Cheese 9% to 10; Butter, Western and Glades, 16
to 22, and Goshen 25 to 27.
NEW ORLEANS, April 17.— Chiton. —The large
business of yesterday left only a moderate supply
on factors’ tables for to-day's operations, and very
full prices have been claimed: but with a still eas
ier market for freights, buyers have come forward
pretty freely, and tne sales reach about 9500 bales.
The fates have been firmer, especially for the mid
dling and better qualities, and we slightly raise
our figures for these grades. Inferior 5%@7%; 1
Ordinary B<sß% > Good Ordinary 8%(g9%; Low
Middling 9%@9% ; Middling 10@10%; Good
Middling 10%@11; Middling Fair 11%@11%;
Fair—.
COTTON' STATEMENT.
Stock on hand Ist Sept., 1855 bales.. 38.201
Arrived since 1,586,635
to-day 1,448
1,626,284
Exported to date 1,350,755
“ to-day 13,180-1,368,935
Stock on hand and on shipboard not cl’d. 262,349
Sugar. —The demand has been fair, and with
easier prices for most qualities; the sales amount
to 1,000 hhds.
Molasses.—' The market is firmer, end 1,000 bbls.
have been sold to-day at 32@54c. fof*fermenting,
and 35@56% and 86 cents y gallon for good re
boiled to prime lots.
Flour.— 2so Ohio at $6 ; 250 Indiana at $6.12%;
400 St. Louis at $8.25; 224 extra at $3 ; and 100
fine at $5.25 # bbl.
Corn. —The demand has been moderate, with
sales of about 3,000 sacks, including 920 at 45 and
46c.; 3,100 at 47c.; 2,900 in 2 lots at 46(548c., and
1,000 white, also in lots, at 48c. y bushel.
Bacon.—We have noticed sales of barely 50 casks
Sides in several lots at B%c. for ribbed,"and 10%
($lO% cents for clear, with a few retail parcels of
Shoulders at 7% cents $ lb.
Pry Salted Meats. —The transactions comprise 27
casks, hog round, at 7 cents, and about 140,000 lbs
prime, in bulk, at 7% cents £>., which is an im
provement.
Whisky— There is a large stock of Rectified of
fering on the Levee, and the market is dull at 23($
23% cents $ gallon. A lot of 75 bbls. Dexter’s
sold' to-day at 32 cents.
Candles.—We have noticed sales of about 200
boxes Star < Proctor A Gamble’s) at 22cts., in lots,
and some light weight at 21 cents $ lb.
Fraught*. —A ship was taken yesterday for Bor
deaux at 15-16 c. for Cotton, and another was laid
on for that port. About 2,000 bales Cotton have
been shipped to Liverpool to-day, in British ves
sels, at %d.
Exchanges. —The market is still firmer, and we
quote London S(s9 and 9% y cent, prein., Paris
sf. 17 %(ssf. 22 %; New York 60 days 1($1% y ct.
disc.; New York Sight par to % y cent, discount.
23F* Diseases of the Liver.—When the
celebrated Dr. Rush declared that drunkenness was
a disease, he enunciated a truth which the experi
ence and observation of medical men is every day
confirming. The many apparently insane excesses
of those who indulge in the use of spirituous liquors,
may be thus accounted for. The true cause of con
duct, which is taken for infatuation, is very fre
quently a diseased state of the Liver. No organ in
the human system, when deranged, produces a
more frightful catalogue of diseases. And if, in
stead of applying remedies to the manifestations of
disease, as is too often the case, physicians would
prescribe with a view to the original cause, fewer
deaths would result from diseases induced by a de
ranged state of the Liver. Three-fourths of the dis
eases enumerated under the head of Consumption,
have their seat in a diseased Liver. Dr. M'Lane's
Celebrated Liver Pills , prepared by Fleming Bros.,
are a certain cure.
Purchasers will be careful to ask for DR.
M’LANE’S CELEBRATED LIVER PILLS, nianu
ufactured by Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa.
There ore other Pills purporting to be Liver Pills,
now' before the public Dr. M’Lane’s genuine Liver
Pills, also his celebrated Vermifuge, can now be
had at all respectable drug stores. None genuine
without the signature of FLEMING BROS.
Sold, wholesale and retail, by .
SCOVIL A MEAD,
111 Chartres-st., New Orleans.
Genera! Agents for the Southern States, to whom
all orders must be addressed.
I For sale iu Augusta by Haviland, Rislet A Co.,
D. B. Plumb A Co., Barrett, Carter A Co., Clark
’ & Wells, N. J. Fogarty A Co., Wm. H. Tutt, W.
A J. Turpin.
, j Haviland, Harral A Co., Charleston, S. C.
| A. A. Solomons A Co., Savannah, and by one
j Agent iu every town in the South.
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BULK SALT.
IV' E are prepared to ftirnish Liverpool bulk
v W SALT in quantities to suit purchasers, and
five bushel sacks, made of the old fashioned
“ Holmes Striped Sacking.’’
ap6 d&c HAND, WILCOX A CO.
JOHN CASHIN,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Xo. 4 Warren Block,
-MTILI, receive and sell on consignment, all
ff articles of WESTERN PRODUCE and
MERCHANDISE, and execute orders for COTTON
and GRAIN. ap22
H. G. FARRELL*S
CELEBRATED ARABIAN LINIMENT
IS well known to possess the most wonderfully
healing, penetrating and stimulating properties,
and by its promptness iu effecting cures, w’hich
previously had resisted all other medicines, ad
ministered by the most scientific physicians, has
placed it far beyond any similar remedy ever in
troduced to the people of the United Slates. It
stimulates the absorbents to increased action, and
thus enables nature to throw off disease— it pene
trates to the boneSy adding strength and activity to
the muscles—it is powerfully anodyne and thereby
allays nervous irritation , producing a delightfully
pleasing sensation through the whole frame. * Owing
toils remarkable anticeptic properties, it purifies
and neutralizes that poisonous, corrosive principle
which renders old ulcerous sores so difficult to heal;
it therefore is peculiarly adapted to their speedy
cure. This Liniment from its penetrating and
strengthening qualities has been found to be a spe
cific for Paralysis or Palsy, Whiteswellings and
diseased joints, and in fact all comDlaints invol
ving the muscular system. It has cured cases of
Rheumatism of twenty to thirtv years’ standing,
and affections of the B>pine wherein the entire spi
nal column was so crooked and distorted, that the
patient could not walk or stand without artificial
support. Numerous cases of Palsy have been
cured when the flesh had withered, leaving nothing
but the dried skin and bone, and the limbs totally
without use or feeling. For Children with Croup
it is of inestimable value, rubbed and bathed over
the throat and chest. If applied freely on the chest
it never fails to give relief in the severe Coughs at
tending Consumption, Asthma, and Colds. It heals
wounds speedUy—will cure Scaldhead, Mange, etc.
Planters and Farmers will find it a most valuable
medicine to be applied to Horses and Cattle for
Sprains, Bruises, Lameness, Stiff Joints, Sweeney,
Dry Shoulder, Wounds, Burns, Splint, Chafes or
Galls, Hardened Knots on the flesh, etc.
Lookout for Counterfeits!
The public are cautioned against another coun
terfeit, which has lately made its appearance, called
W. B. Farrell’s Arabian Liniment, the most dan
gerous of all the counterfeits, because his having
the name of Farrell, many will buy it in good
faith, without the knowledge that a counterfeit ex
ists, and they will perhaps only discover their error
when the spurious mixture has wrought* its evil
effects.
The genuine article is manufactured only by H.
G/Farrell, sole inventor and proprietor, and whole
sale druggist, No. 17 Main street, Peoria, Illinois,
to whom all applications for Agencies must be ad
dressed. Be sure you get it with the letters H. -G. be
fore Farrell’s, thus—H. G. FARRELL’S—and his
signature on the wrapper, all others are counter
feit.
Sold bv HAVILAND, RISLEY A CO., W. H. A
J .TURPIN, N. J. FOG ART \ A CO., CLARK,
WELLS A DuBOSE, and D. B. PLUMB A CO.,
Augusta, Ga., and by regularly authorized agents
throughout the United States.
Price 25 and 50 cents, and $1 per bottle.
AGENTS WANTED in every town, village and
hamlet in the United States, in which one is not
already established. Address H. G. Farrell as
above, accompanied with good reference as to char
acter, responsibility, Ac. dis24&c4 mh29
■jr AND WARRANTS WANTED—The higli-
JLi est cash prices paid by us for Land Warrants.
mh22 HfOWARD A DUGAS.
■■■■■
MARRIED,
' f On the 2d instant, by the Rev. Luke T. Mizell,
j Samuel if. Bradford, Esq., and Miss Mart Sophia
' [ Ca clues, all of Cobb county, Ga.
In Warren county, on the 4th of March, by Elias
Lazenby, Esq., Mr. Talbot Jones and Miss ‘Nancy
| Norris.
On the 6th inst., by the same, Mr. Thomas Hin
j ton and Miss Seaxt Locket, daughter of Cullen R.
j Locket, all of Warren county„
OBITUARY.
j Died, in Edgefield District, on the 6th instant, of
| Consumption, Mre. Susan T. Harris, wife of Mr,
| Willis G. Harris, in the 29th year of her age.
The premature death of tins amiable and much
j loved lady, has cast a deep gloom of sorrow over
, the whole community in which she lived. Posses-
I sing, in an eminent 'degree, many if not all of the
noblest traits of the female character, she won the
love, admiration and esteem of all who knew her.
Surrounded by every earthly comfort, what a bright
future was before her—but, alas! how uncertain
are all human calculations! for whilst in the very
prime of life, the destroying angel comes ana
claims his victim, regardless of age ? position in so
ciety, or the bitter anguish of family and friends.
Thus by one blow of the fell destroyer, an aged
and infirm father has been deprived of an only
daughter, the stay and support of his fast declining
vears—the strongest ties which bind the devoted
husband to earth, have been abruptly severed, and
four lixtle orphan children are never more to know
a mother’s tender care.
Mrs. Harris was admonished for several weeks
of her approaching dissolution, and she was fully
prepared to meet, unawed, the mighty king of ter
| rors, and thus death was deprived of his sting, and
the grave of a victory.
“The sacred tie
Is broken; yet why grieve? for time but holds
His moiety in trust, till joy shall lead
To the blest world Where parting is unknown.
DIED.
At the residence of her father, near Abbeville C.
11., on the morning of the Bth inst., Mrs. Mary
1 Norwood Lomax, consort of Mr. William James
, Lomax, and eldest daughter of John A. Calhoun,
Esq., all of that District. She was born at Abbe
■ yille C. H., on the 3<>th of March, 1834, and was
l just twenty-two years and six days of age.
£gr Covington, Newton County, Geo.,
, 18th April, 1856.—Mr. Editor : In the Chronicle dk
i Sentinel, of the 16th inst., I see the Presentments
. of the Grand Jury, for the second week of the
• March Term, 1858, of the Superior Court of New
ton county, presents the conduct of the Managers
5 of the election at Brewer’s Precinct, in said county,
• in sending three or four miles and receiving a vote
' at the last October election.
I acted in the capacity of manager in the election
5 alluded to, and feel myself called upon for an ac
’ count of my actings and doings. While the elec
tion referred to was in progress, young Mr. Fielder,
son of 0. M. B. Fielder, Esq., came to the polls
with a certificate enclosing a ticket from O. M. B.
Fielder. The managers informed Mr. Fielder that
the vote could not be taken ; the friends of Fielder
insisted that one of the managers should wait on
Mr. O. M. B. Fielder, and receive his vote,, as it
had been the universal practice in Covington, at
all former elections. Thomas J. Kitchens, Esq.,
one of the managers, waited on Mr. 0. M. B. Field
er. received his vote, brought it to the polls, and it
was received, numbered and recorded.
After the entire vote of the county was counted
out, and only one or two majority for Mr. Pharr
over Mr. Baker being the result, the friends of Ba
ker spoke of contesting the election, and Mr. Field
er’s vote was spoken of by the Know Nothings as
being either illegal or improper. This gave rise to
a closer examination into the matter, and it was
! said that some twenty or more of the operatives at
: and about Newton Factory had voted, and had not
paid their taxes; aud as they were all under the
surveilance of the Newton Manufacturing Compa
ny, and the Company all good, sworn in Know
Nothings, this had rather a quieting influence, and
1 the election was not contested. A day or two be
fore the January election following, I called on Mr.
, William Stewart, Tax Collector, for a list of de
k faulters, and informed him that I intended they
. should either pay their taxes or not vote at Brew
er’s ; he did not furnish me vritkii list. On the day
of the election, the proprietors of the Newton Fac
b tory were there, with the operatives, and all voted.
I called on all, and informed them that voting was
illegal by persons who had not paid their tax, and
• could do no more.
The Grand Jury of the first week allowed ALk k
Wm. Stewart, Tax Collector, SiO.7S foV -
vent list. The political Grand Jury, for the second
week, March Term, 1856, who seemed to have sucSL
a tender regard for the purity of the
stood about eighteen Know Nothings to five Anties.
I avail myself of this opportunity to say to that
honorable body, that the list of defaulting tax pay- %
ers, and the list of voters, were subject to their
control, and if they had been as careful to compare
and look into that side of the question, they would
probably have laid the axe at the root of the evil.
Respectfully submitted,
ap2o c4_ HARRY CAMP.
pT The Great Russian Remedy.—Pro
Bono Publico.—“Every mother should have a box
in the house handy, in case of accidents to the
children.”
Redding’s Russia Salve.—lt is a Boston remedy
of thirty years’ standing, aud is recommended by
physicians. It is a sure and speedy cure for Burns,
Piles, Boils, Corns, Felons, Chilblains, and Old
Sores, of every kind; for Fever Sores, Ulcers, Itch,
Scald Head, Nettle Rash, Bunions, Sore Nipples,
(recommended by nurses,) Whitlows, Sties, Fes
ters, Flea Bites, Spider Stings, Frozen Limbs, Salt
Rheum, Scurvy, Sore and Cracked Lips, Sore Nose,
Warts and Flesh Wounds, it is a most valuable
remedy and cure, which can be testified to by thou-jgj
sands who have used it in the city of Boston
vicinity, for the laet thirty years. In no
. will this Salve do an injury, or interfere
physician’s prescriptions. It is made from
purest materials, from a recipe brought from RtllWi
sia—of articles growing in that country—and the
proprietors have letters from all classes, clergy
men, physicians, sea captains, nurses and others,
who have used it themselves, and recommend it to
others. Redding’s Russia SALVE is put up in
large tin boxes, stamped on the cover with a pic
ture of a horse and a disabled soldier, which pic
ture is also engraved on the wrapper. Price, 25
cents a box. Sold at all the stores in town or
country, or may be ordered of any wholesale Drug
gist. REDDING & CO., Proprietors.
For sale by GEO. OATES, at his Book, Music
and Piano Store, Broad-st. d&ceow6m febl7
Excelsior.—Perhaps no preparation
or tonic, for the restoration an ' preservation of the
hair, has ever been used with success equal to that
of “ PROF. WOOD’S HAIR RESTORATIVE.”
In the production of this great remedy. Professor ’
Wood has materially benefitted the human family,
while he has added additional laurels to his already
world-wide reputation. It never fails to restore
hair to the prematurely bald, and cause the silvery
locks of the h mry-headed to resume their original
color. To be had at 114 Market street. — St. Louis
Morning Herald.
For sale, wholesale and retail, by
WM. HAINES, Druggist.
ap23 d6*cl Broad-st., Augusta, Ga.
r-*f“ Augusta, April 15, 1856.—Fancy
AND STAPLE DRY GOODS —New Goods, New
Styles, and Prices Reduced.— THOS. BRENNAN
has now in store, and will receive weekly from New
York, the newest styles of FANCY AND STAPLE
SPRING AND SUMMER DRY GOODS, which
he offers at a small advance on cost. The public
are respectfully invited to call and examine the
Goods before buying elsewhere. Terms cash. See
advertisements in other columns of this paper.
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